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6.6Severity/Priority in Bug Tracking Tools

Jira Configuration

Jira has separate "Priority" and "Severity" fields (severity must be added as a custom field). Use both:

Priority: Blocker / Critical / Major / Minor / Trivial
Severity (custom): Critical / High / Medium / Low

GitHub Issues

Use labels to represent both dimensions:

severity:critical, severity:high, severity:medium, severity:low
priority:p0, priority:p1, priority:p2, priority:p3

Linear

Linear's built-in priority (Urgent / High / Medium / Low / No priority) maps to priority. Add a "Severity" label group for the second dimension.