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Rename "Normal" priority to "Medium" priority in Bugzilla
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"Normal" priority is a very subjective term, even more than "highest" priority. What's normal to you when you're asked about priority?

I am going to rename this to "medium" priority and update our documentation.


Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: enhancement

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bz46020

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:39 AM
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This really should be discussed first, Wikitech-l would be a good idea.

(In reply to comment #1)

This really should be discussed first

Could you explain why in this case? (It's not that I'd disagree, just interested in understanding expectations better and this looks like a rather trivial change, without plans to change the meaning of the priority, just its name.)

There's a small group of people who have indicated an interest in discussing Bugzilla-related matters (cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Bug_Squad#Who_is_interested).

Perhaps a discussion among those people would be prudent?

Generally, this seems like a trivial change and I'm not sure it needs a wikitech-l discussion (though a heads-up "this has been done" post to wikitech-l is always nice).

You're proposing changing only the priority drop-down menu, not the importance drop-down menu?

(In reply to comment #3)

There's a small group of people who have indicated an interest in discussing
Bugzilla-related matters (cf.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/
Bug_Squad#Who_is_interested>).

Perhaps a discussion among those people would be prudent?

CC'ing to get some more input.

(a heads-up "this has been done" post to wikitech-l is always nice).

That was my plan.

You're proposing changing only the priority drop-down menu, not the
importance drop-down menu?

If you meant "Severity" ("Importance" is both, see bug 32164), no plans to change that one (as I have no idea what would be a better term).

Thinking about this, it will break all queries that anybody has stored outside of Bugzilla's saved searches (e.g. excluding seveirty = enhancement).
Hmmm.
I'm not that convinced anymore that it's worth the hassle, pointing people to the interpretation of "normal" might be better instead. I've added the term "medium" to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Priority .
Might be WONTFIX.

mails2vichu wrote:

Sir,Where I can find the file to change?

You cannot, as it is a setting on the server and not in some codebase.

mails2vichu wrote:

So that as a new comer I cant fix this?
or else we need to have high privs for server access,sir?

Only Bugzilla admins can fix this.

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