On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:01 -0500, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> Célio Cidral Junior wrote:
> > 2006/3/9, Matthew Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> there's little distinction between "priority" and "severity".
> > 
> > After thinking again about priority vs. severity, I agree with you.
> > These concepts are so related so that there's no reason to have them
> > separated.
> 
> Not to restart an old discussion, but they seem quite different to me.
> Severity is customer-facing, i.e. how severe the impact is to them.  Priority
> is inward-facing, i.e. how important it is to fix.  Maybe the customer with
> the severe impact is not an important customer, or the customer doesn't think
> it's severe but for other reasons we really need to get it fixed.
> 
> For project tracking and planning purposes, priority is the most important,
> but especially if you're going to let customers see into your trac, severity
> can be important to them.

Well, that's why there are custom fields.  Different people have
different needs for the ticket fields they need to track.  For a lot of
projects having type/priority/severity is redundant and confusing, so I
don't think it's a good "default" field.  If you need additional fields
go ahead and make use of the custom fields to tweak Trac to your
business needs.

-- 
Matthew Good <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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