From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17252 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:07:36 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 17:07:36 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpVQ9-00086p-SW for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:07:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 16105 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 17:07:21 +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 2862 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:07:21 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:04:43 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_18_04_43_+0100_QiZWrlleD=VTSTgx" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: ed946a51-110c-4e6d-9904-5b3e1cd36702 X-Archives-Hash: 45719923c2f61d9786099ad280a416b5 --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_18_04_43_+0100_QiZWrlleD=VTSTgx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:54:49 -0400 Dylan Carlson wrote: | 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). 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"... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_18_04_43_+0100_QiZWrlleD=VTSTgx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBosu96zL6DUtXhERAoPmAJ9CdB0exG4ey0Vv8/1/kSSOu5AM0QCfRlKA vLZjN4a1hcrgAOagX5Luv6U= =V3bQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_18_04_43_+0100_QiZWrlleD=VTSTgx--