On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 11:20, Andre Klapper <aklap...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  * Personally I also assume Lowest priority is sometimes used instead
>    of honestly declining a task (means: "this is not a good idea"[5]).
>    But of course that is rather hard to prove.
>

This is anecodal, but when I was a product manager at the WMF, I did this
sometimes. As is true in any company or project, there will always be
tickets that contain valid bugs or requests, but the reward per unit effort
makes them not worth fixing. I often tried to close these as declined to
reflect that reality, but not infrequently someone outside the team would
reopen the ticket. The path of least resistance to stop team workboards
being filled with tickets that would never be actioned was to mark them as
lowest priority, and then use a filter to remove those tickets from our
views of the board.

I don't particularly have a view one way or the other on removal of the
"lowest" priority. The workflow I described above wouldn't really change;
"low" could just become the new "lowest", but people wouldn't find it
demoralising, I suppose?

Dan
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