Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:09:23 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: verbose device probing ? Message-ID: <20030122014658.I43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <200301211626.h0LGQ88B001307@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > 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. > This sounds like throwing the baby out with the water - it would be better to find a relatively clueful volutnteer(s) who would make sure the fields are set to sensible values. This is sometimes reffered to asbug triaging. > Bruce. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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