Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 2:45 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Those are assumptions based upon a very large amount of evidence

So you admit that they are assumptions, based on anecdotal evidence.

> No, I'm saying it's an indicator which already exists if someone wants
> to find out how popular their bug might be, nothing more. However, Cc:
> list spamming is pretty pointless, whereas vote spamming could be
> construed to mean something.

Funny, that's the idea.  It's not spamming if you have a finite amount of 
votes.  People can spend them any way they choose.  If you spend your 
votes on enhancement requests to app-misc/hello-kitty, that's your choice.

What ultimately matters is the sum of all user votes.  It's safe to say the 
top-10 most voted list would be something we should consider paying more 
attention to.

> | 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.
>
> 1) Because it will lead to "this bug has over a hundred votes, why is
> it being ignored?" posts.

And would such posts be unreasonable?  I don't think so.  If a bug has a 
large # of votes relative to everything else, and it IS being ignored, 
it's a valid question.

> 2) Because it is yet another field in bugzilla. We already have far too
> many clicky boxes for most people.

We have a wizard bug reporting interface which does not change as a result 
of bug voting.  At most the bug page will show the # of votes, and will 
add one more link at the bottom to vote for the bug.  Big deal.

Keep reaching.

> 3) Because it will lead to vote spamming. Search the Off The Wall forum
> for "portage ignorance" for a good example of why this won't work.

Hmm, voting seems to work pretty well for KDE and Mozilla, among others.  
And it's a trivial change, which again, you seem to be reaching for 
reasons to shoot holes through.  If it doesn't work out, we turn votes 
off, it's as simple as that.

> | Also please read: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml
>
> Posting irrelevant links does not make an argument.

It's not irrelevant, if you actually take a minute to read it instead of 
posting more FUD against bugzilla voting.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org]
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