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

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On May 13, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
>
> Op vr, 12-05-2006 te 13:43 +0200, schreef Dennis Kaarsemaker:
>>
>> Severity is the impact of the bug on end users, priority is/should be
>> the order in which bugs are fixed.
>
> I think what Dennis means is that a bug that is annoying (but nothing
> more) for almost all users will often have a higher priority to be 
> fixed than a crasher (and possible dataloss) bug that impact 0.00001% 
> of the userbase.
> ...

Sure, I understand that. What I don't understand is why Malone should 
record severity in that case. If it's not being used to prioritize 
fixes, what use is it? The answer to that question has to be worth more 
than the cost of the extra complexity in Malone. Currently, we don't 
think it is.

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