so, we've got FC2 now...

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:08:39PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
 > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:47:26PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > > > Excellent. Will do this this evening unless someone stops me before then.
 > > Wait, you're planning to close all the open FC2 bugs across all packages?
 > 
 > Was planning, yeah, but I thought maybe someone would want to stop me so I
 > didn't just go do it. :)
 > 
 > I'll certainly wait if there should be more talking about this first. I
 > think it's a good idea because otherwise bugzilla ends up a wasteland. 
 > 
 > I was intending to start with the low priority / low severity bugs first and
 > then scrutinize the higher priority / severity ones more closely. (I already
 > went through the ones marked as "security" by hand.)

The biggest problem with the severity field is that its user-visible.
This means we get way too many users filing bugs as 'high' or even
'security' hoping that it means the bug gets fixed faster.

Some package owners go through and reset the priority to 'low' as they
go through these bugs.  I gave up doing that for kernel bugs after users
started setting them back to high for no reason again.

As it stands the field is pretty useless.

		Dave