The severity description on the guided bug reporting page is inconsistent with the descriptions of severity levels on other pages, such as the following: http://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap6 For example, where the guided bug reporting page describes a severity of critical as "The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data.", the bugzilla-howto.xml describes it as in the following: # Critical - The program has loss of data or severe memory leaks during runtime. Again, an important program like say net-tools failing to compile could be labelled critical. It won't prevent the system from starting up, but is quite essential for day to day stuff. # Major - The program crashes, but nothing that causes your system severe damage or information loss. From these descriptions, a bug which causes a program to hang without data-loss or memory leaks would would either fall into the critical or major category depending on which description is used. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit a guided bug reporting page at bugs.gentoo.org 2. Read http://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity or http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap6 3. Notice that the description for critical severity are ambiguous/inconsistent.
Not the GDP's problem, as the requested change is to bugzilla itself, not the document.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 619108 ***
