On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I don't think you would need to ban people not in your group from touching those fields. You only need to take into account who said that as well as what they said. Even when having a shared meaning, it doesn't hold the same meaning the priority set by the reporter (how he thinks it should be treated), other developers/bugzilla gnomes (a more accurate view) or your boss (this is how you must consider it).
I agree - and I dont mean to suggest we ban people from touching the priority/severity fields, but rather determine a sound approach as a matter of policy. A part of my concern is setting expectations around temporally based priorities that may not jive with a team's use of bugzilla, and/or setting a precedent for somehow interrupting a team's normal flow. But if I'm the only one who doesn't agree with assigning temporal values to priorities I don't want to bikeshed or otherwise stand in the way of this getting done - we can always revisit it later if it turns out to be problematic/ineffective/etc.