0011005: Configurable access to "Priority" field

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0011005	mantisbt	feature	public	2009-10-05 13:41	2010-04-23 23:22

Reporter	watergad	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	1.2.0rc1

Summary	0011005: Configurable access to "Priority" field
Description	It would be nice to have Priority field access configurable. Customers may want to set priority when reporting bugs. Now I changed bug_report_advanced_page.php: if ( access_has_project_level( config_get( 'handle_bug_threshold' ) ) ) { to if ( access_has_project_level( config_get( 'report_bug_threshold' ) ) ) { but I feel like I fall to the dark side this way (:
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thraxisp 2009-10-05 14:58 reporter ~0023067	IMHO, this may not be wise. There are two fields: severity and priority. In practice, the severity field is set by the originator, and the priority field would be set by the developer after reviewing the bug and other circumstances. It would reflect the DEVELOPER'S priority in addressing the bug. If my reporters set this, their individual bugs would always be set to the highest priority, and the field would be useless. I'd rather see the field hidden from reporters.

watergad 2009-10-05 15:25 reporter ~0023068	Agreed, that's how this field is supposed to be. But sometimes we have to show that the problem is not so important but must be done quick. And we're not so vulnerable because customers make reports through competent IT department. Just it's useful in some cases - but ok, I agree, not so often.

dhx 2009-10-06 05:36 reporter ~0023077	FYI I want to make built-in fields to share functionality/code with the custom field API. This would allow you to set the read/write access thresholds to the priority, severity, etc fields independently of each other.

watergad 2009-10-19 06:36 reporter ~0023236	Done in 1.2.0rc2

vboctor 2009-10-19 16:53 manager ~0023247	@watergad, can you provide the issue number that included the work you were asking for here?