On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Arun Sharma wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > > > PS. I personally ignore the severity and priority fields of PRs. The > > > importance of many PRs I've dealt with is very much inflated. > > > > > > > Perhaps you should change the severity field to a lower level then ? Or > > is there a different problem (such as lack of good tools) that prevent you > > from doing that ? > > The severity and priority fields can be changed manually but that > doesn't solve the problem that relying on the user-specified severity > and priority fields for anything meaningful just doesn't work. > > The only point that I was trying to make with my comment was that you > shouldn't place much weight on the contents of the severity and priority > fields in the database. >
This sounds like throwing the baby out with the water - it would be better to find a relatively clueful volutnteer(s) who would make sure the fields are set to sensible values. This is sometimes reffered to asbug triaging. > Bruce. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
