On 12/8/2015 4:26 PM, Frédéric Buclin wrote: > Le 08. 12. 15 14:16, Jonathan Wakely a écrit : >>> Dropping it is ok I think. >> >> Yes, even for the valid "enhancement" cases a maintainer who triages >> the report could set that easily enough. > > If maintainers still use the severity field to triage bugs, then it > should not be dropped. It would be much easier to restrict the ability > to edit the severity field to users with editbugs privs (basically users > with a @gcc.gnu.org account + a few other accounts). >
If the person submitting the PR gets to set the severity field, it should be dropped. If anybody sets the severity, it should be the people *doing* the triage or the person to whom the PR is eventually assigned. John
