270381 - More quantative/numeric bug priority

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Piotr Wasik]

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Bug priorities should be computed:

Priority (computed floating point) = importance (entered floating point) /
required effort (entered floating point). 

This requires a database schema to be altered (more attributes describing a bug
are required).

In consequence, search criteria should allow to search for bugs with priority
belonging to a certain range.

The feature would allow me to prioritize/schedule large quantities of bugs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
N/A

Comment 1

[Ed Grimm]

Alternate suggestion:

Priority [computed floating point] = ((importance [entered integer] - 1.0) /
required effort [ entered floating point]) + 1.0

This allows retrofiting existing databases easier, and it acknowledges the
business truth: P1 tasks must be completed ASAP.  Tasks that don't need to be
completed ASAP are not P1.

In this, I'm assuming unrated bugs are counted as suggested in bug 275953.

Comment 2

[Vlad Dascalu]

We still need to split the severity field between:

-> how easy the bug is to fix
-> how severe the bug is

This will allow for things like "enhancement trivial" or "major trivial" instead
of the today's fiasco in the severity field.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning bugs that I'm not actively working on to the default component owner
in order to try to make some sanity out of my personal buglist.  This doesn't
mean the bug isn't being dealt with, just that I'm not the one doing it.  If you
are dealing with this bug, please assign it to yourself.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

The priority is something we define manually, based on the... priorities your boss tells you to fix them. It doesn't make sense to have it computed as it would mean your computer is the one defining the priority of bugs, not your boss.