[Development] Priority field in Jira

Edward Welbourne edward.welbourne at qt.io
Tue Feb 25 10:31:21 CET 2020


Mitch Curtis (25 February 2020 10:23) elaborated on what he'd said earlier:
>> For some context and for those who don't know: within the company, we
>> now have weekly bug triaging where a team of two people prioritise
>> all unprioritised bugs. So new reports rarely go more than a few days
>> without having a priority set. We've been doing this for a few years
>> (?) now and it works quite well.

> Someone just reminded me that some devs within the company don't have
> approver rights yet, which is a good point.

(Full disclosure: I was that someone.)

> So I'll revise my question:

> Why do we allow users who are unfamiliar with our conventions about
> priority values to set the priority of a bug report?

How about: because we can always over-ride them if we really disagree;
and their prioritising of the bug is an opening for discussion of why
it's so important to them - which, after all, we might have missed.

I'd rather have a dialog than a privilege,

	Eddy.


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