Malone's Severity and Priority are soon to be replaced by Importance

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

     "No human thing is of serious importance..."
                                 -- Plato, /The Republic/, Book X

To make Malone a bit simpler, in a couple of weeks (the exact date is 
undecided) the Severity and Priority fields for bugs will be merged. 
The new field will be called "Importance", representing -- in the 
opinion of developers and/or their managers -- how important it is that 
a bug be fixed.

For an existing bug, its Importance value will be equivalent to its old 
Severity value. If you have been using Priority and not Severity to
record the importance of bugs independently of Severity, sometime in the
next couple of weeks you should go through your open bug reports and
give them appropriate Severity values in preparation for the change. If
this will be a problem, please let us know on launchpad-users at .

For a new bug, its initial Importance value will be "Untriaged". The 
other values for Importance will be Critical, High, Medium, Low, and 
Wishlist. Developers will be free to fix bugs without triaging them,
just as currently they often fix bugs without adjusting their Severity 
or Priority. But for bugs reported after this change, you will be able 
to be confident that "Medium" really does mean "Medium" and not 
"nobody's triaged this yet".

If you use the X-Launchpad-Bug: header to filter your e-mail by 
"severity=" or "priority=", you will need to change these filters to 
find "importance=" instead.

The e-mail interface for changing a bug will work as usual with the new 
field. For example:

  affects /distros/ubuntu/smegconf
  importance low

Any questions or complaints, please let us know on launchpad-users at .

Cheers
-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 191 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/attachments/20060512/66b10419/attachment.pgp