From dev-return-38452-archive-asf-public=cust-asf.ponee.io@subversion.apache.org Mon Oct 29 14:00:33 2018 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by mx-eu-01.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A8DA180627 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:00:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 4640 invoked by uid 500); 29 Oct 2018 13:00:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@subversion.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 4624 invoked by uid 99); 29 Oct 2018 13:00:31 -0000 Received: from mail-relay.apache.org (HELO mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) (207.244.88.152) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:00:31 +0000 Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com (auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.227]) by mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id DA63F320F; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9220621A77; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:00:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:00:30 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 203909E569; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:00:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1540818030.20547.1558177560.3B33F6A0@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Julian Foad To: =?utf-8?Q?Branko=20=C4=8Cibej?= , dev@subversion.apache.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-63008d4f References: <1540734028.3931565.1557275896.58EF7BE7@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:00:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: Subject: Issue tracker "priority" field meaning [was: [jira] [Updated] (SVN-4555) Centralized user level pristine storage] Branko =C4=8Cibej wrote: > On 28.10.2018 14:40, Julian Foad wrote: > >> [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4555?page=3Dcom.atlassian.= jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] > >> Priority: Trivial (was: Major) > > Brane: why this change? 'Major' (which is the default/usual) priority s= eemed right to me. >=20 > There are a number of problems with this idea, [...] > IMO there are much, much more important things we should be doing [...] > Therefore I'd say that centralised pristine storage is far down the list > of features we'd like to add. I don't disagree. It would be good to copy those observations into the issu= e. As for priority, the label "trivial" suggests no real impact and we tend to= use that for items such as "information in a FAQ entry is outdated" (https= ://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4682). The reporter of such an issue is likely to understand that we feel the issu= e is of no importance, or that we have completely missed the point, and I w= ant us to maintain a good relationship with our community peers (users). It seems to me that we really don't mean "priority" literally in our use of= the issue tracker: we hardly ever record a decision about the order in whi= ch issues will be addressed. Rather we usually mean something like "severit= y" or "effort", probably conflating those two. In fact, the terms like "tri= vial" and "major" inherently describe something like a severity or effort r= ather than a priority. The old issue tracker used values "P1 ... "P5" for the "Priority" field, an= d described it as "level of importance ... to help determine the priority .= .. P1 - Most important ... P5 - Least important": http://subversion.tigris.= org/scdocs/ddIssues_EnterModify.html#priority I would submit that since the majority originate in the old issue tracker, = this meaning is most prevalent. So maybe we should move all the existing "priority" field values to a field= named "importance", with the sole exception of any you have deliberately s= et to actually mean priority. --=20 - Julian