From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26550 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 18:23:33 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 18:23:33 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpWbr-0008Bz-It for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:23:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 4203 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 18:23:31 +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 26312 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 18:23:30 +0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:18:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <200407271327.29517.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727190714.5e2a463d@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040727190714.5e2a463d@snowdrop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407271418.56253.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: c4c6b557-e7cd-45f8-9e4a-341850832d8b X-Archives-Hash: 5400c389c23fe60eed3db43df25b4e86 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 2:07 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Except that the voting will not be indicative of what our user base > actually wants. Instead, it will indicate the whim of a vocal minority > of Off The Wall posters and zealots from that IRC channel I'm not > allowed to talk about. Most of our users don't condone join-flooding > other distributions' channels on IRC. Most of our users give at least a > vague hoot about having a stable kernel and filesystem. Most of our > users would rather that their ebuilds compiled, even if it meant missing > out on the occasional x.x.x.1 release from upstream. However, most of > those users won't be voting. Those are assumptions, nothing more. > We already have a good indication of how many people care about a bug -- > the length of the Cc: list usually works pretty well. Really? So you think that if we started measuring the CC lists that it wouldn't somehow be tainted by the "vocal minority" that would otherwise be voting? Your logic is totally flawed. A person could easily CC: themselves on 1,000+ open bugs. However, you are only allocated a certain number of votes, therefore a person has to exercise economy about what things matter to them most. I frankly don't understand why you're so outspoken on this issue. You can ignore votes if that's what you choose to do. This is not a policy change proposal, this is an enhancement request for Bugzilla. It's optional for the users to use it, it's optional for us to make decisions based on it. But in cases when it is used, it can be helpful to determine what bugs are causing the people most pain, or what enhancements are most desired. Also please read: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml 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