Re: GOP-PROP 8: issue priorities

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 07:48:12AM +0000, Keith OHara wrote:
> I'm curious first what we want the "priority" field to mean.
> 
> Probably we do not mean literally the priority with which contributors will 
> give attention to the bugs, because contributors are volunteers driven by 
> individual interest.

Another thought: we could look at filling the patch countdown in
order of priority (plus some amount of discretionary judgement if
a patch has been waiting for a long time).  I didn't do this in
the last patch countdown, but I'm now thinking that I should have
done this.

One consequence of this interpretation of the Priority field means
that we should probably remove priority-postponed.  I mean, if
somebody *does* come by and start working on ancient music, I
don't want to "penalize" having his patches being reviewed just
because nobody's been working on ancient music in the past few
years!

The more that I think about it, the more I like this
interpretation of the Priority field.

Cheers,
- Graham