Severities and priorities in bugzilla

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

We presently have 6 severity and 5 priority classes in bugzilla. 
management.html documents them as

  Severity --  This field describes the impact of a bug.
     Blocker     Blocks development and/or testing work
     Critical    crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak
     Major       major loss of function
     Minor       minor loss of function, or other problem where easy 
                 workaround is  present
     Trivial     cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text
     Enhancement Request for enhancement

  Priority -- This field describes the importance and order in which a bug 
              should be fixed. It is utilized by the programmers/engineers 
              to prioritize their work to be done. The available priorities are:
     P1 Most important
     P2 More important
     P3
     P4 Less important
     P5 Least important

Apart from the fact that the description of the severities seems not 
really taylored to gcc, I think that these are just too many different 
states. Daniel, can these states be reduced? How about
  Severities
    Critical   A regression or other important broken functionality
    Normal     Any bug where gcc generates wrong code or doesn't conform 
               to some relevant standard, or where diagnostics are
               misleading
    Minor      Small enhancements, minor stuff that does not affect 
               usability of gcc but would be nice to have

  Priorities
    P1         Most important. Should be fixed in the next possible 
               release
    P2         Should eventually be fixed, but no timeframe is set
    P3         Least important

To me, having Severity, Priority, and Milestone is still a little 
confusing. Is there a way to enforce that all P1 priority bugs have a 
milestone set?

W.

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