Well, this got no response when posted as a reply to another thread, so let's give it its own :) To recap, we decided a while back it would be desirable to have triagers set priority / severity when triaging new bugs, according to a consistent system. This was proposed to the development group, and received no "don't do that, you crazy mad fool!"-type feedback. So we're good on that front. Therefore, I intend to go ahead and add this to the standard triage procedure soon - deadline end of this week, as it's all been agreed. The remaining issues are: * fully document the conventions for setting priority / severity * agree on either the Beland / Williamson Method or the Cepl Method on the second point - to recap, the Beland / Williamson Method is for triagers to set both priority and severity, with severity indicating the significance of the issue with regard only to the package it occurs in, while priority indicates the significance of the issue with regard to the distribution as a whole. For e.g., a bug which caused all the icons in the Firefox toolbar to disappear might be medium severity (it's not really a highly severe bug *in Firefox*, there's no crashing or data loss) but urgent priority (as it'd look really bad to release Fedora with such a visible bug in a package almost everyone uses). A bug which caused some obscure application that few people use to crash on startup would be high or urgent severity (it's obviously a bad bug in the app), but low or medium priority (it's not really that important to the project as a whole as it's not widely used). The Cepl Method would have triagers set only the severity. Low, medium and high severity would indicate the importance of the issue just for the package it was in, much like in the B / W Method. Urgent severity would be used if it was a bad issue that was also, in the triager's judgement, particularly significant for the distribution as a whole. Priority would be left alone, on the understanding it should be used solely by the maintainer. In today's IRC meeting, most people came down in favour of the Cepl Method, so unless there's a significant vote the other way here, we'll go ahead and start implementing the Cepl Method at the end of this week. If you have further input on this or would prefer the Beland / Williamson method, speak up now! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
