On 2019-07-17 10:41:09 +0000 (+0000), Zvonar, Bill wrote: [...]
Btw, it'd be nice if Launchpad had a field for Severity, so we could track that more easily - does anybody know if we can just request this & get it added as a custom field? [...]
The data model for Launchpad hasn't changed in many years and I gather its codebase has very few remaining maintainers at Canonical these days. In the past we've had some limited luck requesting new methods added to the LP API, so I suppose it can't hurt to ask. You could file such a feature request here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug An alternative (which they are just as likely to recommend, if they respond to your request) is to use bugtags for this purpose. Those can have whatever names you want and you can still query based on them. It's worth noting that the subjective and non-project-agnostic nature of severity/importance is what led StoryBoard to not include fields for them, opting instead for a combination of extensible worklists (where relative priority can be indicated by manually ranking different stories, and you can have multiple worklists which rank them differently according to a variety of arbitrarily-chosen metrics or individual opinions) and storytags (which can have whatever names you want and are also usable to populate automatic worklists and board lanes). -- Jeremy Stanley