Severity / priority project: the home stretch

[Adam Williamson]

Hi, folks!

So, we're nearing the final stretch of the severity / priority
project. :)

I have, as I noted previously, added some text to the triage guide to
cover this:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/How_to_Triage#Checklist_for_NEW_Bug_Triage (section 9)

I have now added a section to the bug lifecycle page with a more
complete and formal explanation, partly taken from the Beland 'Legend'
draft page where we kicked around the competing systems:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#Priority_and_Severity
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Beland/Bugzilla_Legend#Severity_and_Priority

I'll send an announcement to -devel-list soon. So, now, the priority /
severity project is officially Open. BugZappers, please, if you haven't
been already, start assigning a severity to all bugs as you triage them,
according to the information above. This will be taken seriously and
used in various ways.

Talking about use, I will soon send out a review of bugs open on Rawhide
and marked 'critical' severity. I'd like to have a review of this set of
bugs each week. I don't necessarily want to be the one doing it,
however. :) It'd be an ideal project for a community member: it's quite
straightforward and requires no secret sauce, all you have to do is take
a quick look at a saved query each week, do some copy/paste-ing, and
pontificate. :) Let me know if you'd be interested in doing this.

We'll also be reviewing all 'critical' bugs (and, if we get ambitious,
even 'high' bugs in key components) during the blocker bug review
meetings for F12, and the triage metric system will probably use the
severity ratings for some metrics too.

Thanks everyone who contributed on this project!
-- 
Adam Williamson
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