APT Project PR Priorities (As of Jan 7, 2008)

With the retirement of the Preprocessor, and addition of new staff, as well as the work we have done in trying to provide information about what is being worked on, while understanding the needs of our users, the APT development team is suggesting a new priority scheme for APT PRs. 

Priorities would be categorized in one of 5 categories, defined by the first digit in the PR priority (or Ranking):

Label	Priority	Old Priority
Critical	150	100, most 120
Important	250	some 120, 125-150, 200, some 220
Medium	350	most 220, 225-250
Low	450	300-350
Unimportant	550	380

The second priority will default to x50, which will have no particular meaning.  Developers may use additional values from 00-49 and 51-99 to indicate something about the implementation of a given PR in relation to other PRs, but it will not be necessary for Users to understand how it is being used.  No longer will we differentiate between internal and external (00 vs 20) or major and minor release issues (20 or 25), as these differences have not been enforced.  Also, 50 will no longer be used to indicate an Action Item - as these are still prioritized work, and could be neglected since they had appeared near the bottom of lists of items.  Items which are actually On Hold where no work is expected until outside action will be "DEFERRED" as per the PR System, and a list will be kept on the APT Agenda.

Critical will be reserved for truly Critical work.  Most items promised in a release will be set to Important instead.