From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20812 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2004 10:09:33 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 Aug 2004 10:09:33 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bt1fH-0005XQ-PX for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:09:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 21090 invoked by uid 89); 6 Aug 2004 10:09:31 +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 29723 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2004 10:09:31 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:09:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727194940.GG24932@mail.lieber.org> In-Reply-To: <20040727194940.GG24932@mail.lieber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_aj1EBgpwzAYDJen"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408061209.30365.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: e63c1e40-5e52-4025-af9c-b0c4c90fe27a X-Archives-Hash: 90a8da715f64f9aed3eec9924185123a --Boundary-02=_aj1EBgpwzAYDJen Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 27 July 2004 21:49, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:54:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Dylan Carlson=20 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 t= he > 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. Many of my packages (like openoffice) are plagued by subtle one of bugs. I= =20 think that voting in this can be an indication on whether other people also= =20 have this bug, or whether this user is the only one experiencing problems.= =20 These bugs are particularly hard to fix, and I really like to know whether= =20 other users have the same problems. (In many cases cc is a good indication)= =2E=20 Similarly for feature requests on my packages, I'd like to know if more tha= n=20 one person is really waiting for the perl bindings on subversion. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_aj1EBgpwzAYDJen Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBE1jabKx5DBjWFdsRAl3UAJ4rcItyhjMQewvOFZXF6t6PNfxs6gCfVeFc ZpiDvKSSlw/se+shlTqiovQ= =VZrz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_aj1EBgpwzAYDJen--