Re: aged bugs

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Laura Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > The following accessibility bugs were recently downgraded from P2 to 
> > P3 without explanation:
> 
> For what it's worth, the "Priority" field in Bugzilla has no meaning 
> with respect to the HTML WG Decision Policy. If any of the editors want 
> to use this field for personal tracking purpose, they are free to do so.
> 
> However this particular change seems to have confused a number of 
> people, so if Ian wants to explain his use of priority fields, or at 
> least let the WG know that we don't need to be concerned about this 
> field, that would be helpful.

I was normalising the priority field so that I could use it to prioritise
work; for example, non-editorial bugs that affect implementors are more
important than non-editorial bugs that affect authors, which are
themselves more important than any kind of editorial bug. When I get
requests to prioritise non-editorial bugs I can use the priority field to
keep track of these requests. In general all bugs should be "normal P3" 
unless I've received a request to prioritise something.

HTH,
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