On 8 December 2015 at 12:42, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Yes, even for the valid "enhancement" cases a maintainer who triages the report could set that easily enough. Or we could just change it to choosing between two simple options: bug/enhancement. > I'd rather have known-to-work exposed > for people filing regressions. Agreed. > In reality we don't use severity at all - exposing important keywords > like 'wrong-code' and 'rejects-valid' would be much more useful. Yes, maybe checkboxes for them (which would add the relevant item to the keywords field) would be nice. > 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? We already have a "Hide advanced fields" toggle, maybe we should just flip the default setting for that.
