"No human thing is of serious importance..."
-- Plato, /The Republic/, Book XTo 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. The new field will be called "Importance", representing -- in the opinion of developers and/or their managers -- how important it is that a bug be fixed. For an existing bug, its Importance value will be equivalent to its old Severity value. If you have been using Priority and not Severity to record the importance of bugs independently of Severity, sometime in the next couple of weeks you should go through your open bug reports and give them appropriate Severity values in preparation for the change. If this will be a problem, please let us know on [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a new bug, its initial Importance value will be "Untriaged". The other values for Importance will be Critical, High, Medium, Low, and Wishlist. Developers will be free to fix bugs without triaging them, just as currently they often fix bugs without adjusting their Severity or Priority. But for bugs reported after this change, you will be able to be confident that "Medium" really does mean "Medium" and not "nobody's triaged this yet". If you use the X-Launchpad-Bug: header to filter your e-mail by "severity=" or "priority=", you will need to change these filters to find "importance=" instead. The e-mail interface for changing a bug will work as usual with the new field. For example: affects /distros/ubuntu/smegconf importance low Any questions or complaints, please let us know on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/
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