Add help link to explain meaning of priority levels
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	FriedhelmW
	Jan 23 2015, 6:25 AM

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When the user is asked to enter or change task priority level, a help link should be shown next to it. Maybe open a new browser window explaining what the priority levels mean.

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Mentioned In: T136468: Cannot send any email via "Email this user" on ru.wikipedia.org
T78639: How to address the long tail of low priority tasks in active projects
Mentioned Here: T103556: Learn from WMDE's approaches how to better explaining actions and processes in Engineering and making "Phab more welcoming"
T115016: Find way to make clearer how task "Priority" field is supposed to be used and set

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FriedhelmW created this task.Jan 23 2015, 6:25 AM

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Aklapper triaged this task as Lowest priority.Jan 24 2015, 1:36 AM

Merging comments from duplicate task T115016:

In T115016#1712627, @Aklapper wrote:

..which would be https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Project_management#Setting_task_priorities
I created this task based on confusion / different interpretations described in T103556#1458377

In T115016#1712988, @scfc wrote:

IMHO this won't work. "Priority" is a simple English word, and few people will think that they need to look that up to report a bug. If "Priority" is confusing/misleading, renaming it to "Team's own priority"/"Lead team priority"/etc. would solve the issue. But to direct users to read through lots of text instead of a simple "Don't touch!" which is true in 99 % of all cases is wasteful of their time and energy.

Aklapper merged a task: T115016: Find way to make clearer how task "Priority" field is supposed to be used and set.Dec 12 2015, 10:15 PM

Liuxinyu970226 set Security to None.Dec 13 2015, 4:09 AM

Aklapper mentioned this in T78639: How to address the long tail of low priority tasks in active projects.Dec 30 2015, 11:32 PM

scfc mentioned this in T136468: Cannot send any email via "Email this user" on ru.wikipedia.org.May 30 2016, 6:47 PM

Aklapper moved this task from To Triage to Needs code (in Phab or bot) on the Phabricator board.Aug 29 2018, 6:26 PM

I'm declining this task only because the Priority field is not consistently used, and does not have a shared meaning across developers, managers, teams. So whatever docs we'd link, they'd create wrong expectations.

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