From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2481 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 18:09:54 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 18:09:54 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpWOe-0001vI-U6 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:09:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 12439 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 18:09:52 +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 8158 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 18:09:52 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:07:14 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040727190714.5e2a463d@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200407271327.29517.absinthe@gentoo.org> References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> <200407271327.29517.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_19_07_14_+0100_ZXJZUI+s2wt8YRmH" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: f4ac9321-c70c-467f-853e-b03625889ae7 X-Archives-Hash: e8e5ce25da57651e5855eaa454184d63 --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_19_07_14_+0100_ZXJZUI+s2wt8YRmH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:27:29 -0400 Dylan Carlson wrote: | On Tuesday 27 July 2004 1:04 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > 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"... | | That's a grim assessment. In any case, it doesn't matter how someone | spends their votes. If many people spend votes for bootsplash, and | bootsplash enhancements end up being a priority, then I would hope we | would respond by incorporating them with the same priority as our own | personal wishlists. 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. We already have a good indication of how many people care about a bug -- the length of the Cc: list usually works pretty well. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_19_07_14_+0100_ZXJZUI+s2wt8YRmH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBpnX96zL6DUtXhERAsiWAJ4v2FskLaup4migxI5H4Ala39UQIgCg40WR 482ws4efv04X/cPsN1bJ59k= =t9EP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_19_07_14_+0100_ZXJZUI+s2wt8YRmH--