While i don't know the specifics of the situation you encountered, a common
view (not the only view) is priority should be set by people who are going
to do the work to fix the bug (or in consultation with them), except for
"unbreak now". This may or may not be WMF staff.
The problem is that almost every bug is important to someone, so if
everybody sets priorities just for the things they care about (and people
tend to only increase them never decrease) every single bug ends up being
set as "high", even the ones that people generally think are useless and
noone intends to work on. The end result is the priority field becomes
ignored, because it no longer reflects the real priority of the bug.
--
Brian
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Roy Smith wrote:
> The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically
> told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of
> phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be
> appreciated :-)
>
> On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman <
> d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Would anyone be interest in a session about triaging tickets ?
> > ...
> > * Set a priority
>
>
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