Malone's Severity and Priority are soon to be replaced by Importance

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On May 12, 2006, at 11:02 PM, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>
> On vr, 2006-05-12 at 22:30 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>> To make Malone a bit simpler, in a couple of weeks (the exact date is
>> undecided) the Severity and Priority fields for bugs will be merged.
>
> Why would that be simpler?

Because it will be one less field to twiddle, with hardly any loss of 
usefulness.

> Severity and priority are two very different things. There can be 
> major bugs with priority wontfix

"Priority wontfix" doesn't really make sense anyway -- Won't Fix should 
be (and eventually will be) a status, like it is in other bug trackers.

> or minor bugs with high priority...
> ...

If the Priority field determines in which order developers should fix 
bugs like that one, who is the Severity field useful for, and for what 
purpose? Currently the situation is the reverse: most people are using 
Severity to decide which bugs should be fixed first, and not touching 
Priority. And the very fact that individual developers can use the 
fields two different ways -- or four different ways, if you count using 
each as a subdivision of the other -- makes them less useful for 
project management.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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