It may be fixed, deferred, found to be a feature or not a defect at all, etc. There are also mailing groups for security, MDS, etc. Changes to the source code access policies will change the way defects are managed. These changes remain to be implemented. The REQ defect tracking system provides support for assigning a priority to defects of Default, High, Normal, or Low.
Convention is that all defects are high priority by default.
Future usage may include assignable priority levels. Source Code Management CVS is the source management tool. Source code policies are documented in source.html . This refers to events that warrant suspension of a test effort. This resolution of testing is not applicable at this time.