Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 11:11 pm, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> I'm also strongly in favour of a limited number of votes per user. Along
> the lines of 2 votes/week for non-developers, and 4 votes/week for
> developers. Unused votes should NOT get carried over between weeks, to
> prevent vote hoarding.

As Tom pointed out, you get a fixed number of votes to allocate at any one 
time (they don't accumulate).   How many you can place on each bug depends 
on the maximum that has been set for the Product the bug belongs to.  You 
can, also, by this same way prevent people on voting for bugs in a 
particular Product (by setting maximum votes for that product to 0.)

So let's throw out an example scenario.  I don't necessarily like how KDE 
does it, since one person can add more weight by slapping 20 votes on. I 
personally prefer a 1 vote per person model, but it could be done either 
way with success.   This is probably how I would set it up:

Users are given 20 votes.  

We let them allocate one vote per bug, for the things that are worthwhile 
to vote on.

We set up the per-product voting settings like this:

Admin: 0  (voting not desireable here)
Developer Relations: 0 
Docs-developer: 1 (one vote per bug)
Docs-user: 1
Gentoo GLSA: 1 
Gentoo Hosted Projects: 1
Gentoo Linux: 1
Gentoo Linux Bugzilla: 0
Gentoo LiveCD: 1
GRP: 1
Mirrors: 1
Portage Development: 1
Recruitment: 0
Web-www.gentoo.org: 1


Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org]
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