User Interaction and Reporting
The current system is not very accurate and mixes information
about severity and quality of the check (e.g. we downgraded some
errors to warnings because they produced too many false
positives)
The plan is to introduce two dimensions "Severity" and
"Significance" where each of them has 3-4 possible values
There will be one human-readable output format that will just add
a qualifier to the severity value (e.g.
E?
or
E!
instead of just
E
))
and one machine-readable output with numerical values (don't
know which format to use yet, tough, colon-separated? XML?
RFC822?)
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> (Debian)
Debian QA Meeting 2005
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