From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 09:28:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D827A16A4CE; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:28:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AFE43D1F; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 304A81472F; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:28:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:28:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Ceri Davies In-Reply-To: <20040429143623.GM10877@submonkey.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-bugbusters Subject: Re: per-user send-pr defaults: ~/.send-pr.rc? X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:28:51 -0000 On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Ceri Davies wrote: > I'm slightly uncomfortable with allowing users to specify a default > priority and severity, but those fields are becoming useless anyway so > this may not be too much of an issue - I need to think about that a bit. Many people assign unsuitable values to these fields. Unless someone wants to do some kind of enforcement effort (code to say "if Foo says it, it's really a priority, if Bar says it, it's not") these fields should just be suppressed. DES has argued that they are meaningless at this point and should just be dropped. I disagreed with him when he last posted it but at this point I've changed my mind -- the time spent trying to bring sense to the current state of these fields in the database would be much better spent just fixing the PRs. The only alternative I would see is to go through and reset everything to, e.g., non-critical, and start enforcing people to choose appropriate values as they come in. I'm not volunteering for this, I have too many other projects, and unless someone comes forward pretty quickly to do something like that, I'd just say drop 'em. mcl