On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > I would really like to see the Severity field removed from the bug > entry form. A few people use it correctly to mark their bugs as > enhancements or trivial, but most users just set it to "blocker" > because they think it means "how important is this to you?". Obviously > everyone's bug is important to them, but that doesn't make it a GCC > release blocker. > > If we have to keep it could we put a label next to it explaining what > it's for, and requesting users to engage brain before choosing > "critical" or "blocker" ?
Dropping it is ok I think. I'd rather have known-to-work exposed for people filing regressions. In reality we don't use severity at all - exposing important keywords like 'wrong-code' and 'rejects-valid' would be much more useful. People also get Component wrong but it would be inconvenient to have it dropped. Maybe have an advanced bug reporting form and a simple one? Richard.
