From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8344 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:22:04 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 17:22:04 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpVeN-0006fo-5R for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:22:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 824 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 17:21:06 +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 12880 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:21:05 +0000 From: Chris Bainbridge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:21:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Gentoo Foundation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407271821.03199.chrb@gentoo.org> X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at haymarket.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.33, Sophie 3.04rc1, Sophos Anti-Virus 3.83 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: 2a45d785-11e6-443e-8edb-a1fe16edc7c9 X-Archives-Hash: 80fa69c65b2bf9c66ec8c7f45eb3fdc1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 18:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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!"), 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) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list