From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23597 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:31:14 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 17:31:14 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpVnF-00053b-PL for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:31:13 +0000 Received: (qmail 1993 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 17:30:42 +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 27150 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:30:42 +0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:27:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407271327.29517.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: 976c74de-11fc-4684-90ce-83a7bedb3efb X-Archives-Hash: 652bb30f636871ab96816fdc00a4e97a 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. In any case, a bug has been created. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58568 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