Closing bugs in bugzilla

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all severity
to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
>        What    |Removed                     |Added
>        Severity|major                       |normal
>          Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

[Ben Hodgetts]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
> This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all severity
> to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> > tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
> >        What    |Removed                     |Added
> >        Severity|major                       |normal
> >          Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

It doesn't change it itself, the closer does it. If I close a bug then I
also change the severity but only if it was wrong initially (so people
can look back a closed bugs and still have them with what severity they
really should be).

Ex.

[James Hawkins]

On 4/28/07, Ben Hodgetts  wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
> > This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all severity
> > to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> > > tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
> > >        What    |Removed                     |Added
> > >        Severity|major                       |normal
> > >          Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
>
> It doesn't change it itself, the closer does it. If I close a bug then I
> also change the severity but only if it was wrong initially (so people
> can look back a closed bugs and still have them with what severity they
> really should be).

I'm pretty sure that's not what Vitaliy meant.  He's questioning why
the person who closes the bug also changes the severity.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

James Hawkins wrote:
> On 4/28/07, Ben Hodgetts  wrote:
> > Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > > Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
> > > This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all
> >
> > severity
> > > to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> > > > tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
> > > >        What    |Removed                     |Added
> > > >        Severity|major                       |normal
> > > >          Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
> >
> > It doesn't change it itself, the closer does it. If I close a bug then I
> > also change the severity but only if it was wrong initially (so people
> > can look back a closed bugs and still have them with what severity they
> > really should be).
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not what Vitaliy meant.  He's questioning why
> the person who closes the bug also changes the severity.

Correct that is exactly what I am asking. It seems that every time some
one goes into a "frenzy" of touching big number of bugs at the same
time, they are not available on the IRC, don't respond to e-mails. Nor
did they discussed the matter on the wine-devel or any other
communication channels.

My question is why change severity of the bug _after_ it was resolved?

Can we make a policy that whenever any one wants to do a wholesale
change on Bugzilla discuss the matter with other people involved? So at
least they will know what's going on and why.

Vitaliy

[Tony Lambregts]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> James Hawkins wrote:
> > On 4/28/07, Ben Hodgetts  wrote:
> > > Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > > > Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
> > > > This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all
> > >
> > > severity
> > > > to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> > > > > tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
> > > > >        What    |Removed                     |Added
> > > > >        Severity|major                       |normal
> > > > >          Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
> > >
> > > It doesn't change it itself, the closer does it. If I close a bug then I
> > > also change the severity but only if it was wrong initially (so people
> > > can look back a closed bugs and still have them with what severity they
> > > really should be).
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that's not what Vitaliy meant.  He's questioning why
> > the person who closes the bug also changes the severity.
>
> Correct that is exactly what I am asking. It seems that every time some
> one goes into a "frenzy" of touching big number of bugs at the same
> time, they are not available on the IRC, don't respond to e-mails. Nor
> did they discussed the matter on the wine-devel or any other
> communication channels.
>
> My question is why change severity of the bug _after_ it was resolved?
>
> Can we make a policy that whenever any one wants to do a wholesale
> change on Bugzilla discuss the matter with other people involved? So at
> least they will know what's going on and why.
>
> Vitaliy

Well if the severity is not right in the first place It should be changed.

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Tony Lambregts