On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/21/2009 12:03 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> John Summerfield wrote: >>> I'm the only person able to assess the importance of a bug _to me._ If a >>> bug in any package, no matter how unimportant it might seem to some >>> triager, prevents my use of a computer, then that bug is critically >>> important to me. >>> >>> That importance does not mean that anyone has to assign massive >>> resources to fixing it, but dismiss my assessment as irrelevant and I >>> will be offended. >>> >> >> +1 >> >> If severity is supposed to mean "how bad a bug is for the reporter", >> then ignoring the reporters assessment of that severity seems somewhere >> between arrogant and counterproductive. > > Severity doesn't mean that. Both severity and priority are fields for > maintainers and not for the reporter. Says who? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity Severity This field describes the impact of a bug. Urgent This report is an urgent issue and should be fixes as soon as possible. High Problem due to crashes, loss of data, severe memory, leak, etc. Medium It's a bug that should be fixed eventually. Low Problem is minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present. jerry -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
