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OpenJDK uses a system for deciding the priority of open bugs. It's based on concepts of Impact, Likelihood and Workaround for an issue, and in levels ranging from High through Medium to Low.

  • Impact meaning how badly it affects a customer, with high being system unusable / data loss etc.
  • Likelihood meaning how likely a customer is to encounter the issue, with High meaning that it's a virtual certainty.
  • Workaround meaning how easy it is to workaround the issue, with High meaning that it is virtually impossible to find a tractable workaround.

This means that there are 27 (3^3) combinations of these, mapping to the standard P1 through P5 issue priorities in the Java Bug System.

The mappings are:

If you find any errors, please update the source spreadsheet.

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