Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Kurt Lieber <klieber@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:54:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> I'm assuming there was some reason voting was turned off (since IIRC it's 
> on by default).  If so I'm just curious what that reason is.

No reason that I'm aware of why it was turned off.  That said, I'm
generally leery of enabling technology for technology's sake.  So far, I
haven't seen any indication of how this would be useful.  Folks have said
devs are free to use it or ignore it as they see fit.  That doesn't seem
(to me) like it's going to provide any sort of valuable, useful feedback to
the team or the community beyond what we already get with CC lists.

Plus, as someone else noted, our users are not exactly famous for being
able to use bugzilla correctly in its current form (to be fair, most of the
blame for this falls on bugzilla, which has a horrid UI imo).

Basically, if the argument is, "well...it's there.  Why *not* turn it on?"
then I don't see that as being particularly compelling.  It sounds like a
solution in search of a problem.

--kurt

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