From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 320 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 23:01:57 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 23:01:57 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpaxF-0003h5-3m for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:01:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 4744 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 23:01:52 +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 21412 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 23:01:52 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:59:09 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040727235909.1e2d0755@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200407271824.48472.absinthe@gentoo.org> References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <200407271637.04014.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727223904.524c952f@snowdrop.home> <200407271824.48472.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_23_59_09_+0100_aNg3H/TKSu5hNDiy" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: 9f4bd597-eedb-480b-aa66-849ea117bf4a X-Archives-Hash: 91367ed1f27cc1cdfe2b70771800ebb0 --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_23_59_09_+0100_aNg3H/TKSu5hNDiy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:24:48 -0400 Dylan Carlson wrote: | On Tuesday 27 July 2004 5:39 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > I'd hardly call 30,000 emails and however many forums posts there | > are"nothing". | | Wasn't it you who called them the "vocal minority"? No, I said that that provided strong evidence that we do have a vocal minority who go around demanding the latest x.x.x.1 releases, spamming other distributions' IRC channels, using broken kernels and so on. | Right, a completely isolated case. As a package maintainer should | know more than most users. But ultimately, most bugs (that haven't | been closed out as INVALID/etc) are either problems with the way | something works now, or an enhancement request. You think that votes | get cast for stupid things? Do you really think our users are stupid? 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. | For developers such as yourself, what are you worried about? Ignore | the votes and keep working on your buglist like you normally would. I | fail to see the problem here. 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. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_23_59_09_+0100_aNg3H/TKSu5hNDiy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBt4/96zL6DUtXhERAkfLAJ9AtR4kyZxY0PjLGgmHamuHbW8EqgCeIJoj dIek7y+8rE3RDnF3+jsYZbM= =hpRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__27_Jul_2004_23_59_09_+0100_aNg3H/TKSu5hNDiy--