From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8358 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 23:16:15 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 23:16:15 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpbB8-0004f7-HY for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:16:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 10025 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 23:16:14 +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 3326 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 23:16:13 +0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:12:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <200407271824.48472.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727235909.1e2d0755@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20040727235909.1e2d0755@snowdrop.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407271912.55898.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: c81bfa57-9020-43e3-83ac-f141263f1c8f X-Archives-Hash: b1abe354e9c48885a6c329c6c54cf958 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] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list