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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by overgard on Saturday April 09, 2016 @08:46PM (#11464205)
I'm not sure I've ever seen a story marked "minor". Generaly the "priority" of these things is just based on how annoyed the person filing the story was at the time.
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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by MaulingMonkey on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:28AM (#11465040)
I've seen them! Just don't mandate priorities, or be willing to ruthlessly change them as the implementer. Some starting points:

Anything which merely means the publisher won't pay us because it was a milestone deliverable, but which I could see us technically shipping without, is "wontfix."

Anything which will get me fired for not implementing gets to be "minor."

Anything which I will quit over before I can be fired gets to be "major."

Anything which will lead to mass resignations of the entire engineering team gets to be "blocker", but only if it's actually blocking someone else from doing any work whatsoever.

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Re:Frog and Toad are Cofounders by GabrielF00 on Saturday April 09, 2016 @10:03PM (#11464495)
When management starts tracking metrics on how fast major or higher bugs are resolved, most of your issues will magically become minor.
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