Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 6:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> I think votes will get cast for trivial cosmetic features (example:
> bootsplash) rather than the subtle can-make-your-system-die-horribly
> bugs. So, for those kinds of bugs, we'll either have to ignore the
> voting (which pretty much defeats the object of having votes at all) or
> focus on the 'popular' enhancements at the expense of having a working
> system.

Why speculate?  Especially when it's not happening elsewhere in other large 
open-source projects that have voting turned on?

> I am worried that I will see posts saying "why are you ignoring the
> several hundred votes on this bug?" on bugs for small cosmetic issues
> (example: bootsplash) when there are far more important bugs which don't
> attract votes. Although *I* will be ignoring the votes, the voters won't
> be.

Why are you worried about something that hasn't happened?  You're putting 
the cart in front of the horse.  Voting works well for other large 
projects using bugzilla, and there's nothing that would suggest it 
wouldn't work for us.  If vocal/spamming forum users were a problem for 
bugzilla, dot.kde.org users would have made a mess of bugs.kde.org by now.

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org]
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