Comment 7 for bug 886
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| Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote Re: [Bug 886] "Severity" field is more counterproductive than useful | #7 |
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:46:56AM -0500, Brad Bollenbach wrote:
> Would you be happy with us collapsing priority/severity into just a
> priority field, editable only by the people actually doing the work
> on fixing the bug? Would this help simplify the Malone UI a bit, or
> make your job more difficult?
>
> I've attached the description of bug 886 if you need more context on
> what the problem is here.
Severity is an objective assessment of the impact of the bug. In practice,
this usually also determines the priority of the work involved in analyzing
and fixing the bug.
Priority is an independently assigned attribute of the bug, specifically
indicating its priority. In practice, this is a secondary sort key after
severity, and is used to prioritize certain bugs over others within a
severity category.
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- mdz