<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The first part of this change has been made in Bugzilla. <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">The Major and Trivial severity levels have been disabled for filing and editing bugs. <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">Soon we will remap existing Major bugs to Critical, and Trivial bugs to Minor.</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, for any reason, you need to see which bugs have the old value, you can search for the disabled values in Advanced Search, view values of severity which were changed using the History view of a bug, or request `history` as one of the returned fields in the Bugzilla API.</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">Thank you, <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">Emma<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"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:40 PM Emma Humphries <<a href="mailto:emma@mozilla.com">emma@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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/" target="_blank">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>
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