From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31520 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2004 02:55:44 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Jul 2004 02:55:44 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpebW-0006Gw-CL for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 02:55:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 6875 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jul 2004 02:55:41 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26404 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2004 02:55:41 +0000 From: Mike Gardiner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090983187.7465.2.camel@zen.inferno> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:53:07 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: a65110a4-04c2-4108-862b-529ff634d2bc X-Archives-Hash: eb556260154f4d3081f59aeca48ac626 Hi Dylan, Ciaran, all Apologies for entering this late, but from what I gather from the discussion, there seems to be the notion of voting for "real" bugs versus "enhancement" bugs, with some believing votes for the second would outweigh the first, and skew the perception of what really needs to be done. So I guess my question follows, is it possible/feasible to only allow voting on bugs marked as "enhancements"? (as in the bugzilla keyword). Mike Gardiner (Obz) On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:54, Dylan Carlson wrote: > Greetings, > > Stuart touched on this a month ago (see: Tools to help QA, 6/25/04) and I > didn't see any arguments for, or against it. > > My thoughts (I'm in favor of bug voting): > > 1. Without bug voting, there's no way to determine what bugs are most > important to the public (or at least to the people using Bugzilla, which > is really *our* public, in a working sense). > > 2. Turning on voting is a trivial change to our system to give people a > way to promote bugs, and that in turn (ideally) shapes our priorities on > which ones get addressed first. > > I'm assuming there was some reason voting was turned off (since IIRC it's > on by default). If so I'm just curious what that reason is. > > Cheers, > Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org] > Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list