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

Removing "Severity" from New Bug form

2015-12-08 Thread Jonathan Wakely
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 t