I suppose we're disagreeing on the term severity. I don't see any reason it has to to with the likelihood of encountering the bug. In my opinion severity is bas

I suppose we're disagreeing on the term severity. I don't see any reason it has to to with the likelihood of encountering the bug. In my opinion severity is based on the result of something happening. Not the likelihood of it happening. > A bridge I've never heard of in some country where I will never set foot that is on the brink of collapse is certainly not of any severity to me. That's why you would set the priority low. You don't care if it's fixed, but that doesn't change the fact that it could kill someone and is quite a severe bug. I've always used severity as a way of objectively classifying bugs in order to help speed up a bug triage. It works well for that.