From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4H8CovU016700 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 17 May 2005 08:12:51 GMT Received: from adsl-67-39-48-193.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net ([67.39.48.193] helo=exodus) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DXxCA-0002ea-97 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 08:12:54 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 03:13:54 -0500 From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20050517081353.GF3292@exodus.wit.org> References: <200505170058.45844.lanius@gentoo.org> <200505161945.05269.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050517010139.53c90155@snowdrop> <200505162010.01370.vapier@gentoo.org> <4289676B.9070503@egr.msu.edu> <e796392205051623304a3efc47@mail.gmail.com> <4289A433.6070702@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4289A433.6070702@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 4db80b5f-d888-4336-bbac-80d43dcec460 X-Archives-Hash: e842542066944078407057daf49bb355 On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:58:43AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > > Many bugs in bugzilla have ebuilds contributed, the work is done, > > there is just no developer to add them to the tree and review them. > > Bugvoting would allow other developers to see where they can help. For > > example I am using kde but dont read all kde bugs, so if I would know > > there is a kde bug with many votes I would maybe look at it. > > I have mixed feelings about this. > > Voting would be useful to judge which package gathers sufficient > popularity to be added to Portage for example. Currently only packages a > developer cares for are added, voting would help to get user opinion. > > On the other hand, on base system bugs for example voting would be more > a pressure tool that might not help much... > > We could enable voting on a "New Ebuilds" section and see how it goes ? Seems like a good approach in my opinion. Most of the nays have basically come down to "I don't want people voting on stuff I'm working on, I know what needs to be done, don't need extra input to discern it". Ebuild submissions fall squarely outside of that arguement, and would be a good test run of it. Personally, I'd be interested in it for actual portage bugs; that said, I'm not totally sure if I'd want it enabled _now_ since there are internal changes needed rather then more feature bloat, so voting would be ignored till internal bits are done. My 2 cents... ~harring -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list