Proposal: remove the restriction on normal Bugzilla users being able to change the Severity field

[Nate Graham]

On 6/19/21 9:26 AM, David Edmundson wrote:
>> The reason for this change was to stop users with excessive ego from marking their own tickets and tickets they care deeply about as having the "critical" Severity level.
> 
> So what will we do to avoid getting this situation back?
> I don't care if a user changes it once, but users who constantly set
> their minor UI concern to critical gets tiring quickly. Angrily
> closing doesn't work because you can get threads with multiple people
> and then that isn't fair.
> 
> David

I might recommend taking those on a case-by-case basis, by removing 
severity-modification privileges for just the problematic users who 
abuse the system.

I have Bugzilla permission to do so, and perhaps this power could be 
granted to more people, like you.

Nate