Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>]

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On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 20:11 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:53:07AM +0800, Mike Gardiner wrote:
> > 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).
> I don't think this would do any good.  Users tend to mark bugs as
> enhancement on a whim, from what I've seen.  I'd say we should enable
> voting for all bugs, and users should be informed that all enhancements
> are considered separately from problems (your "real" bugs), and it
> should be possible to show the highest voted problems as such. 
> 
> I'm also strongly in favour of a limited number of votes per user. Along
> the lines of 2 votes/week for non-developers, and 4 votes/week for
> developers. Unused votes should NOT get carried over between weeks, to
> prevent vote hoarding.
> 

In case you're not aware how the KDE project maintain this, each user
(not sure about special cases for developers, and not sure I agree with
there being one.) has 100 voting points that they can allocated to bugs,
withs a maximum of 20 on any one bug.

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Tom Wesley <tom@tomaw.org>

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