We have used the Wiki to track important bugs for the last two release
cycles, but I don't mind trying something different.
If we want to switch to Savannah then I would use the criteria that any bug
with a severity greater than 4 must be fixed before the release. And to
begin with, all bugs in the "Crash" and "Configuration and Build System"
categories should be elevated to a severity of 4. As the bugs are triaged,
those which won't be fixed can have their priority lowered back to 3 -
Normal. It would probably be a good idea to leave a comment saying that
the bug was reviewed for the 4.2 release, but was determined not to be a
blocker.
It still is important to capture information about which bugs are important
to users. We could re-purpose the 4.2 Bug List page to be a list of bugs
proposed by users to be fixed before the release. Alternatively, it seems
Savannah has a voting system. I've never used it myself, but we could ask
users to upvote the bugs they consider most important.
Thoughts? I think we should get our ducks in a row in the next day or so
as people are already starting to work on the release.