Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Chris Bainbridge <chrb@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 18:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:54:49 -0400 Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
>
> 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!"), 

Insulting the users; constructive!

> 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"...

Funny, this doesn't seem to be a problem for kde 
(http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=grave&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=crash&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&votes=21&order=bugs.votes)

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