Re: Bugs in Bugzilla

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 10/27/00 9:33 AM, Christopher James Lahey at clahey helixcode com wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>> I don't see the point of having both Priority and Severity; I think we
>> have Priority turned off for Red Hat. Eazel was using Priority I guess
>> - what do you guys do with this field vs. Severity?
> 
> At Helix Code, I believe, we use Severity as Time Estimate.  We use
> patches for Time Estimate that we got from Eazel.  This works fairly well
> for me at least.
> Chris

At Eazel, as Chris says, we replaced Severity with Time Estimate, a feature
formerly lacking in Bugzilla. We use Priority as a way of specifying how
quickly something needs to be fixed (immediately, definitely in current
milestone, desired for current milestone but OK for next, etc.).

John