Use of Bugzilla fields

[Daniel Berlin]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 13:42 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> [Danny, see below for a request.]
> 
> In my review of open PRs against the 4.1 branch, I'm going to adopt a
> new convention.
> 
> Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to
> require fixing for a particular release, I unset the target milestone.
> That's confusing because it might seem to mean that I'm saying the bug
> *can't* be fixed for a particular release, which isn't true.
> 
> So, I'm going to adopt a new convention in these cases.  In particular,
> I'm going to leave the target milestone alone, but set the priority field.
> 
> P1 bugs will be bugs I think absolutely must be fixed before the next
> release; releasing with this bug would be diastrous.
> 
> I'd like to use P2 to indicate that I've review the bug, and that it
> does not merit P1 status, but is important.
> 
> So, Danny, is there any chance we could make it impossible for
> submitters to set this value and make P3 the default instead of P2?

Done.