Use of Bugzilla fields

[Mark Mitchell]

Andrew Pinski 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.
> 
> 
> It might be better to add a flag for this istead of using the priority
> field.

I think it's an appropriate use of the priority field; the priority
field is supposed to say how important the bug is, which is another way
of saying how excited we should be about fixing it in an upcoming release.

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