[Trac-tickets] [The Trac Project] #2225: Rename ticket "severity" to ticket "importance"

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#2225: Rename ticket "severity" to ticket "importance"
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 Reporter:  cboos          |       Owner:  cboos
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  0.9  
Component:  ticket system  |     Version:  devel
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:                 |  
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 This ticket focuses on the "extended" ticket model,
 the one which combines the severity field and the priority field
 and which is still supported in 0.9 either when upgrading existing
 Trac 0.8 systems, or when a newly created 0.9 system is manually
 adapted to restore the "old" behavior (see #1861).

 Thinking again on the priority/severity issue,
 it seems now clear that the name '''severity''' is not adapted,
 as cmlenz pointed out in #2220.

 However, a lot of Trac users expect to be able to independantly
 qualify the objective impact the ticket has on the project,
 as ''blocker'', ''critical'', ''major'', ''minor'' or ''trivial'',
 and be able to prioritize the actual work based
 on some other considerations than objective importance.

 For instance, a feature request of ''minor'' impact,
 which is late for some reason, could be deemed of the
 highest priority, due to some external pressure...
 That reason won't change the objective importance of the issue,
 but setting the priority to ''highest'' means it's now time
 to get rid of it...

 But it had been pointed out that the term '''severity''' is badly
 chosen to express the importance of tickets of other types than
 ''defect''...
 Therefore I propose to change the name of this field to '''importance'''
 which is more generic and would also make sense for ''enhancements'' and
 ''tasks''.

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