Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-26 Thread Mitch Curtis
>From: Volker Hilsheimer > > The priority field changes it’s meaning during the lifetime of the bug report: > > * in the beginning, it tells us how important it is for the reporter of the > bug. This is useful. This is news to me; I've not once heard of it being used this way. I also question

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-26 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
> On 26 Feb 2020, at 11:45, Mitch Curtis wrote: > >> >> From: Development on behalf of Lorn >> Potter >> Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:15 AM >> To: development@qt-project.org >> Subject: Re: [Development

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-26 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
Actually, priority field is not that useful. Anything except P0 and P1 can hang indefinitely in unsolved state, and I agree that assigning P0 or P1 should be restricted. -- Regards, Konstantin ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org htt

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-26 Thread Mitch Curtis
> >From: Development on behalf of Lorn >Potter >Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:15 AM >To: development@qt-project.org >Subject: Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira > >On 25/2/20 8:11 PM, Joerg Bornemann wrote: >

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-26 Thread Lorn Potter
On 25/2/20 8:11 PM, Joerg Bornemann wrote: On 2/25/20 10:31, Edward Welbourne wrote: How about: because we can always over-ride them if we really disagree; and their prioritising of the bug is an opening for discussion of why it's so important to them - which, after all, we might have missed.

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-25 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 2/25/20 10:31, Edward Welbourne wrote: > How about: because we can always over-ride them if we really disagree; > and their prioritising of the bug is an opening for discussion of why > it's so important to them - which, after all, we might have missed. > > I'd rather have a dialog than a priv

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-25 Thread Mitch Curtis
Will try to make comments inline... had to change email client. On 25/2/20, 10:31 am, "Edward Welbourne" wrote: Mitch Curtis (25 February 2020 10:23) elaborated on what he'd said earlier: >> For some context and for those who don't know: within the company, we >> now have weekly bug

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
Mitch Curtis (25 February 2020 10:23) elaborated on what he'd said earlier: >> For some context and for those who don't know: within the company, we >> now have weekly bug triaging where a team of two people prioritise >> all unprioritised bugs. So new reports rarely go more than a few days >> with

Re: [Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-25 Thread Mitch Curtis
> For some context and for those who don't know: within the company, we > now have weekly bug triaging where a team of two people prioritise all > unprioritised bugs. So new reports rarely go more than a few days without > having a priority set. We've been doing this for a few years (?) now and it

[Development] Priority field in Jira

2020-02-25 Thread Mitch Curtis
Hi. I'm curious about what the reasons were for allowing (non-approver) reporters of bugs to set the priority field in Jira. In my experience this often results in priorities being assigned that don't follow our conventions [1] on what constitutes a certain priority, but instead a priority tha