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assigning priorities to Web Kit bugs in <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/">Bugzilla</a>. The relevant bugs are all of those whose product is “WebKit”.</p> <h2><a name="standard-priority-rules"></a>Standard priority rules</h2> <p>Each bug is assigned the first appropriate priority listed below from top to bottom.</p> <h3><a name="p1"></a>P1</h3> <ul> <li>Any reproducible crash or hang.</li> <li>Any regression from a previous publicly released version of WebKit.</li> <li>Serious problem on important site due to site change or newly-important site.</li> <li>Serious security issue.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="p2"></a>P2</h3> <ul> <li>Site that does not function in some non-trivial way.</li> <li>Serious performance complaints.</li> <li>Site that has really bad cosmetic problems (e.g., content overlapping such that it’s very hard to read).</li> <li>Unreproducible crash or hang that has been reported many times.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="p3"></a>P3</h3> <ul> <li>Site that works but has some cosmetic problems.</li> <li>Minor performance complaints, such as trivial memory leaks.</li> <li>Architecture issues that could help with correctness or performance but are not a clear win in advance.</li> <li>Unreproducible crash or hang.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="p4"></a>P4</h3> <ul> <li>All enhancement requests and feature requests not covered the criteria for p1, p2, or p3.</li> </ul> <h3><a name="p5"></a>P5</h3> <ul> <li>P5 is not used for WebKit bugs. 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