Re: Enhancements to the bug system

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:

> 	Who decides what the priority is?
>  a) The reporter   (tendency to inflate urgency)
>  b) The maintainer (tendency to minimize severity)
>  c) Someone else   (becomes the bottleneck)

I think that the inital submitter should specify the priority, and we
should have an interface for changing it later.  If the someone thinks
the bug has the wrong priority, they can change it.  This model has
worked reasonably well in the past for deciding when to open/close
bugs, etc...

-- 
Rob