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Commit 5fbfa62b authored by Mek Stittri's avatar Mek Stittri
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Added severity guidelines for security

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@@ -210,21 +210,21 @@ This label documents the planned timeline & urgency which is used to measure aga
 
| Label | Meaning | Estimate time to fix | Guidance |
|-------|-----------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| ~P1 | Immediate | Immediate hotfix to production | This would normally correspond to a S1 severity below |
| ~P1 | Immediate | Immediate hotfix (outside of the normal release process) | This would normally correspond to a S1 severity below |
| ~P2 | Urgent Priority | The current release | |
| ~P3 | High Priority | The next release | |
| ~P4 | Medium Priority | Within the next 3 releases (1 quarter duration) | |
| ~P5 | Low Priority | Anything outside the next 3 releases (the next quarter duration) | The issue is prominent but does not impact user workflow and a workaround if any is well documented |
| ~P3 | High Priority | The next release after the current release | |
| ~P4 | Medium Priority | Within the next 3 releases (approx one quarter) | |
| ~P5 | Low Priority | Anything outside the next 3 releases (approx beyond one quarter) | The issue is prominent but does not impact user workflow and a workaround is documented |
 
#### Team specific priority guidance
#### Specific Priority guidance
 
| Label | Availability / Performance | Security |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| ~P1 | | |
| ~P2 | The issue is (almost) guaranteed to occur in the near future | |
| ~P3 | The issue is likely to occur in the near future | |
| ~P4 | The issue _may_ occur but it's not likely | |
| ~P5 | | |
| Label | Availability / Performance |
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| ~P1 | |
| ~P2 | The issue is (almost) guaranteed to occur in the near future |
| ~P3 | The issue is likely to occur in the near future |
| ~P4 | The issue _may_ occur but it's not likely |
| ~P5 | |
 
### Bug Severity labels (~S1, ~S2, ~S3 & etc.)
 
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@@ -237,6 +237,15 @@ Severity labels help us clearly communicate the impact of a ~bug on users.
| ~S3 | Major Severity | Broken Feature, workaround acceptable | Can create merge requests only from the Merge Requests page, not through the Issue. |
| ~S4 | Low Severity | Functionality inconvenience or cosmetic issue | Label colors are incorrect / not being displayed. |
 
#### Specific Severity guidance
| Label | Security Impact |
|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ~S1 | >50% customers impacted (possible company extinction level event) |
| ~S2 | Multiple customers impacted (but not apocalyptic) |
| ~S3 | A single customer impacted |
| ~S4 | No customer impact, or expected impact within 30 days |
### Label for community contributors (~"Accepting Merge Requests")
 
Issues that are beneficial to our users, 'nice to haves', that we currently do
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