Closing bugs in bugzilla

[James Hawkins]

On 4/28/07, Ben Hodgetts <ben at atomnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > Can anyone explain why do we need to change severity when closing bugs?
> > This makes severity totally useless. We might as well reset all severity
> > to normal and remove it from the bugzilla.
> >
> >
> >
> >> tony.lambregts at gmail.com changed:
> >>
> >>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>            Severity|major                       |normal
> >>              Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> It doesn't change it itself, the closer does it. If I close a bug then I
> also change the severity but only if it was wrong initially (so people
> can look back a closed bugs and still have them with what severity they
> really should be).
>

I'm pretty sure that's not what Vitaliy meant.  He's questioning why
the person who closes the bug also changes the severity.

-- 
James Hawkins