Draft email to maintainers regarding Priority / Severity in Bugzilla

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:13 +0200, Niels Haase wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 15:21 -0400, TK009 wrote:
> >
> >> My thoughts were that triagers would only set the severity/priority or
> >> prop B only severity on a bug that that will be assigned.  NEEDINFO flag
> >> isn't a reason to change those fields.
> >
> > Yeah, sorry, that's my thought too - sorry for not explicitly
> > mentioning.
> > --
> 
> Only to check if I understand the proposal B right:
> The reporter opens a bug and are able to set the priority. The
> priority/severity will not changed by a triager sine the bug is in NEW
> state. During the assign the triager will change the severity (if
> necessary) only once. After the assign, the developer/maintainer will
> set the priority for his on needs.
> This is the solution that I prefer. So I vote for proposal B.

That's essentially Proposal B, yes. Whether reporters ever get to set
severity at all is still up for debate, at this point, for both
proposals, but aside from that, yup.
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