<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello, and apologies if you receive duplicates of this email. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bugzilla has multiple values for bug severity which are displayed alongside priority. <br><br>The differences between minor or trivial are small and do not help with describing a bug’s effect. <br><br>We have keywords to indicate bugs which are crashes, data loss, or memory leaks; making the major value redundant.<br><br>We removed the enhancement severity when we introduced bug types in 1H19. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">After review and discussion with a subset of Bugzilla stakeholders,
we're announcing our intent to make the following change to Bugzilla.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Existing Severity Values<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">--------------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Blocker: Blocks development and/or testing work <br>* Critical: Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak <br>* Major: Major loss of function <br>* Normal: Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances <br>* Minor: Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present<br>* Trivial: Cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text <br><br>We plan to collapse the existing values into blocker, normal, minor and critical. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">New Severity Values <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">---------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">* Blocker: Broken important user-facing feature, Blocks development and/or testing work <br>* Critical: Affecting a large number of users (all users on AMD64, Windows, MacOS, Linux), or major areas of functionality (tls, DOM, JavaScript, FxA, Add-ons)<br>* Normal: Default; Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances<br>* Minor: Affecting a small number of users (i.e. ArchLinux users on PowerPC), a problem with an easy workaround, or a cosmetic issue such as misspellings or text alignment</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We'll be implementing this change in Bugzilla after the Whistler All-Hands. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you have questions or concerns about this change, please see me at Whistler or set up a meeting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'll be available after the "How to Bugzilla" session on Tuesday at the All Hands (Fairmont Macdonald C, 13:30 to 15:30).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You can also leave comments in: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCiiKV4CE4ZUuOb6yCtCjATzpbnh7MZfLKPqepxzasA/">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCiiKV4CE4ZUuOb6yCtCjATzpbnh7MZfLKPqepxzasA/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Emma H.</div></div>