Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-28 Thread Sébastien Santoro
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote: [...] Not to quote from another video about GitHub (where issues have only title and comment), let's not forget Git: No bug- tracker at all :-). Tim According the http://git-scm.com/community page: Bug reports

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-28 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:23 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: If at the moment the priority field neither necessarily triggers action nor reflects the actual state of affairs, why even bother and not just delete/hide it from view? This would free more time to fix bugs. I don't see how dropping

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-28 Thread bawolff
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:23 +, Tim Landscheidt wrote: If at the moment the priority field neither necessarily triggers action nor reflects the actual state of affairs, why even bother and not just delete/hide it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-28 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: Right now I'd like to introduce a clear way to mark issues that should be handled immediately. This. Also On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: An alternative way of looking at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-28 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:56 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: What I would really like to see is banning users from touching the priority field. The field is made rather useless by bug reporters who feel their pet issue is the most important thing to ever happen - and suddenly there's

[Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla [was: Re: Standardizing highest priority]

2012-11-27 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 17:39 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: I propose adding a *new* priority called Immediate which should only be used to mark really urgent stuff to fix. This priority would be added above the existing Highest priority. 1) Look at the current distribution of priorities at

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla [was: Re: Standardizing highest priority]

2012-11-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 November 2012 17:09, Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2) Look at our priority definitions in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Priority a) normal means Should be fixed by the next release.[1] This is extremely unrealistic with above usage of Normal. You may be

Re: [Wikitech-l] Priorities in Bugzilla

2012-11-27 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Andre Klapper aklap...@wikimedia.org wrote: [...] So in a mysterious future not that far away, I'd like to merge Normal and Low, or Low and Lowest priorities. Combined with a new Immediate priority as proposed above (quoting myself), we would keep the same number of priorities, but we'd