Bugzilla keywords and bug priority policy for the release

Iván Yossi ghevan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 01:53:11 GMT 2026


Hey,

I think it makes perfect sense as krita-qt6 is unstable and at least two 
developers have yet to setup a local qt6 development environment. We 
should not stress more than necessary.


El 10/03/26 a las 5:11, Dmitry Kazakov escribió:
> Hi, all!
>
> We had a small discussion on IRC about bug priorities and bugzilla 
> management, and we got to the following conclusions:
>
> 1) Krita 6.0.0 (based on Qt6) will be released as an "unstable" 
> version of Krita for testing purposes only. Krita 5.3.0 (based on Qt5) 
> will be a real "stable" version. [1]
> 2) Hence Qt6-only bugs are considered as low-priority for now (until 
> the release is done)
> 3) If a Qt6-only bug is a crash bug, then is should be fixed before 
> the release to make sure that distribution builds don't crash for 
> users, whose distributions don't provide Qt5 anymore.
>
> Based on that I think we should use the following rules for keyword 
> assignment on bugzilla:
>
> * `qt6` --- the bug is reproducible on Qt6 only, on any operating 
> system/platform
> * `wayland-only` --- the bug is reproducible in the native Wayland 
> sessions, i.e. it can only happen in Krita 6.0.0 and should go 
> together with `qt6` tag
> * `regression` --- the bug is **not** reproducible in Krita 5.2.16 and 
> **is** reproducible in Krita 5.3.0. The bugs reproducible in Krita 
> 6.0.0 only cannot be considered a regression for now
> * `release_blocker` --- this is a critical bug in Krita 5.3.0 and 
> should be fixed before the release. Bugs in Krita 6.0.0 can be 
> considered as release blockers only if they are crash or dataloss bugs.
>
> What do you think about that?
>
> [1] - we need to discuss how to treat this requirement in the layout 
> of downloads.kde.org <http://downloads.kde.org> and in AppImage updaters.
> -- 
> Dmitry Kazakov
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