[Development] Long-lived P1 issues

[NIkolai Marchenko]

> Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project.  583 of
those issues had that priority set more than one year ago,

I am not saying no one ever fixes those, but given the premise of this
thread. The "promise" of every PX description is certainly broken enough
_in general_ that my rewording is more accurate than official one.


On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:11 AM Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann at qt.io>
wrote:

> On 12/4/20 5:42 AM, NIkolai Marchenko wrote:
>
> > Let's be honest with your users:
> > P0: almost sure to block a release.
> > P1: We will act on it if the maintainer is in the mood some day when
> > it's still fresh
> > P2: We will fix it, maybe
> > P3: thank you for informing us.
>
> That's neither helpful nor true. I certainly fixed many P3s in the past
> - if not for recreational purposes, because I was working in the
> respective area anyways.
>
> For issues that are low priority but hard to fix however... well as in
> every project: bad luck.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joerg
>
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