Bug: Hard coded default severity levels for audit rules?

[ralf.zahn]

Hi,

When managing the following rules within a custom rule set, the default severity is unequal to MEDIUM when ex-/importing the rules to a *.pref file:

com.instantiations.assist.eclipse.analysis.audit.rule.LineLengthAuditRule (default is LOW)
com.instantiations.assist.eclipse.analysis.audit.rule.RestrictedPackagesAuditRule (default is HIGH)

Those severity levels are equal to the levels specified in the "Code Pro Core" ruleset.

This should be a bug, right?

[gnebling]

Every audit rule can define its own default severity. The default severity is not the same (medium) for all audit rules. That's by design.

The CodePro Core audit rule set does not change the default severity of any audit rule because we gave the rules the severity we thought they should have. It wouldn't make any sense for us to define the default severity of a rule to be "low" if we thought it should be "high", nor to change the default severity in the default audit rule set.