Re: severity changes post-release

[Wayne Schuller <k_wayne linuxpower org>]

hi,

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 23:08, Luis Villa wrote:
> Something I've been thinking about for a while... after release, I'd
> like to rename 'critical' to 'crasher' and 'trivial' to 'cosmetic' to
> make it slightly more clear to first time users (esp. via bug-buddy)
> where to place those kinds of bugs. 
> 
> Less concretely: I'd also definitely like to make 'blocker' more clear
> (since it implies things that just aren't true) but I'm not quite sure
> how best to do it. One possible solution is to split it into two
> categories:
> 
> *security
> *build problem
> 
> but that loses us some generality [as does 'critical'->'crasher', FWIW,
> which is maybe a consideration.] Any thoughts?

I think these levels are working ok now...  we have our bugsquad fixing
the priorities if the users get them wrong.

won't making these changes make upgrading bugzilla harder?

ta,
wayne