Bug 201262

Summary:	schema: Improve the flexibility/clarity of Severity field
Product:	Services	Reporter:	Warren Block <wblock>
Component:	Bug Tracker	Assignee:	Bugmeister <bugmeister>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	bugmeister, grahamperrin, koobs, pkelsey
Priority:	---	Keywords:	feature, needs-qa
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193410
Bug Depends on:	193410
Bug Blocks:

Description Warren Block freebsd_committer

2015-07-02 03:23:24 UTC

The Severity field currently allows these values:

  Affects Only Me
  Affects Some People
  Affects Many People

Many people will not be able to effectively answer this question.  Further, the choice of "Affects Only Me" implies knowledge that it does not affect anyone else.  This is effectively a multiple-choice question with overlapping choices and missing the one value that is often needed.

Patrick Kelsey suggested "Unsure" as the first and default choice, and that makes a lot of sense.  Kubilay Kocak suggested "Unknown" which is probably even better.  Either of these would replace "Affects Only Me".

Comment 1 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer

2015-07-02 04:28:30 UTC

This affects "Some People", classify accordingly :P