Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Olivier Crete <tester@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:39 -0400, Peter Johanson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 1:04 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > Well, given that most of our users don't seem to be able to get the
> > > priority field straight ("Waah! There's a tiny typo in an einfo
> > > statement! BLOCKER!"), I'd be kind of sceptical about an easily rigged
> > > popularity contest. I suspect we'd just end up seeing thousands of votes
> > > for "add more pictures to bootsplash" and "add this horribly broken
> > > kernel patch to g-d-s"...
> > 
> > That's a grim assessment.  In any case, it doesn't matter how someone 
> > spends their votes.  If many people spend votes for bootsplash, and 
> > bootsplash enhancements end up being a priority, then I would hope we 
> > would respond by incorporating them with the same priority as our own 
> > personal wishlists.
> 
> I think the point (once you learn to decode ciaranm's acidic comments)
> is that this voting may result in a group of overly zealous users
> skewing things away from realistic priorities. We might see a bug about
> reiser4 support in g-d-s  get pumped up to the top of the list, where a
> bug about fixing a major but subtle flaw in base-layout might not get
> any attention. (just an example (one that ciaranm will i'm sure enjoy))
> 
> None the less, i think enabling it warrants consideration.

And since those votes are completely non-binding.. we are completely
free to ignore them if we believe they are wrong. It might still give
many devs who dont spend their time in #gentoo or the forums a more
direct idea of what users really care about.


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Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer


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