1) Is there a policy regarding what constitutes critical, normal, minor? It looks to me like some of the given critical issues are not as critical as others.
I don't know of a policy.
2) Would it make sense to go through the list of issues and prune them? Then we can encourage people to look at only issues that are truly critical.
I'd be happy to take a crack at 2), if someone could answer 1) for me.
It would make sense.
3) Also, a number of critical issues relate to versions 4.6 and earlier. How can we figure out which of these are relevant to the 4.7 release candidates?
If an issue is reported against version 4.5, but it also applies to CVS, should the version be changed to CVS? Is these some magic that updates issue tagged with CVS once a release is tagged?
4.6 and 4.5 issues, which are still relevant should be upped for CVS. There is no magic AFAIK which changes the version field at all. Goba