Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:28:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-bugbusters <freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: per-user send-pr defaults: ~/.send-pr.rc? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404291122080.2417-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20040429143623.GM10877@submonkey.net>
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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
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