Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread John Marino
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 tri

Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Frédéric Buclin
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 m

Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jonathan Wakely writes: > We already have a "Hide advanced fields" toggle, maybe we should just > flip the default setting for that. They are already hidden by default (the last choice is remembered in a cookie). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196

Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 8 December 2015 at 13:16, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 8 December 2015 at 12:42, Richard Biener > wrote: >> 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 f

Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 8 December 2015 at 12:42, Richard Biener wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Wakely 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

Re: Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Richard Biener
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Wakely 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 import