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A feature rarely used, with a high likelihood of failure may have a lower probability than a popular feature with a low likelihood of failure (due to a high number of customers affected).
Frequent | Will occur several times during common network conditions on Mainnet, across restarts, and be easily reproducible. |
Probable | Likely to occur when engaging in a specific behavior or during common network conditions. |
Occasional | Likely to occur during specific network conditions or with specific CLs/environments. |
Remote | Unlikely but possible to occur in the lifetime of a validator. |
Improbable | So unlikely, it can be assumed occurrence may not be experienced. |
Severity
How bad is the problem when it does get encountered?
Catastrophic | Data loss/corruption or slashing occurs or is very likely to occur for the user. Detrimental risk for a validator stack. Persists over a restart. |
Critical | Requires a restart or user interaction for a node to continue operation and for a validator to perform its duties. |
Moderate | Some components are not working as intended, but the validator continues its duties, i.e. RPC accuracy. |
Marginal | Non-critical components are functioning within limits, but with unintended behaviors or side-effects. |
Insignificant | No significant threat posed and can be left unmediated. |
When judging the severity of the bug as insignificant, as the bug does not need addressing it automatically gets set as P5 (very low) priority.
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