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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:26:08 -0800
From:      bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: verbose device probing ? 
Message-ID:  <200301211626.h0LGQ88B001307@intruder.bmah.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030121051713.GA12845@sharma-home.net> 
References:  <20030120065614.GA4212@sharma-home.net> <200301201633.h0KGX9B9087836@intruder.bmah.org> <20030121051713.GA12845@sharma-home.net>

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If memory serves me right, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > 
> > PS.  I personally ignore the severity and priority fields of PRs.  The
> > importance of many PRs I've dealt with is very much inflated.
> > 
> 
> Perhaps you should change the severity field to a lower level then ? Or
> is there a different problem (such as lack of good tools) that prevent you
> from doing that ?

The severity and priority fields can be changed manually but that
doesn't solve the problem that relying on the user-specified severity
and priority fields for anything meaningful just doesn't work.

The only point that I was trying to make with my comment was that you
shouldn't place much weight on the contents of the severity and priority
fields in the database.

Bruce.



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