* admin/notes/bug-triage: Fix bug priorities. Explain colors in debbugs-gnu.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/admin/notes/bug-triage b/admin/notes/bug-triage
index 648ada4acbf..4a2a5f392e5 100644
--- a/admin/notes/bug-triage
+++ b/admin/notes/bug-triage
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the ones that are not reproducible on the current release.
          weeks, I'll just close this bug as unreproducible."
      [ ] Check that the priority is reasonable.  Most bugs should be
          marked as normal, but crashers and security issues can be
-         marked as "severe".
+         marked as serious.
   4. Your changes will take some time to take effect.  After a period of minutes
      to hours, you will get a mail telling you the control message has been
      processed.  At this point, if there were no errors detected, you and
@@ -95,8 +95,14 @@ For each new bug, ask the following questions:
      reproduce on the latest version, and if it can't be reproduced, ask the
      reporter to try again with the latest version.
   3. Is the bug the same as another bug?  If so, merge the bugs.
-  4. What is the priority of the bug?  Add a priority: critical, grave, serious,
-     important, normal, minor, or wishlist.
+  4. What is the priority of the bug?  Add a priority: serious, important,
+     normal, minor, or wishlist.
   5. Who should be the owner?  This depends on what component the bug is part
      of.  You can look at the admin/MAINTAINERS file (then you can just search
      emacs-devel to match the name with an email address).
+
+In the debbugs-gnu buffer, bugs are marked in the "State" column
+according to the communication flow.  Red bugs mean that nobody has
+answered, these bugs need primary attention.  Green bugs flag that
+there is a recent communication about, and orange bugs flag that the
+bug hasn't been touched for at least two weeks.