From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1038 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:59:39 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Jul 2004 17:59:39 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpWEk-0004sS-D4 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:59:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 32101 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2004 17:59:37 +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 29841 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2004 17:59:37 +0000 X-AntiVirus: Clean Message-ID: <41069808.7040405@gossamer-threads.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:59:36 -0700 From: Jason Rhinelander User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200407271254.50020.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727180443.4db0015c@snowdrop.home> <200407271327.29517.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20040727173952.GC13649@gonzo.stern.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040727173952.GC13649@gonzo.stern.nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting X-Archives-Salt: b112d0d7-0076-4a9f-bd16-dcfdad624b09 X-Archives-Hash: 460805e4b664548ae594ac487a87a566 Peter Johanson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Dylan Carlson wrote: > >>On Tuesday 27 July 2004 1:04 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >>>Well, given that most of our users don't seem to be able to get the >>>priority field straight ("Waah! There's a tiny typo in an einfo >>>statement! BLOCKER!"), I'd be kind of sceptical about an easily rigged >>>popularity contest. I suspect we'd just end up seeing thousands of votes >>>for "add more pictures to bootsplash" and "add this horribly broken >>>kernel patch to g-d-s"... >> >>That's a grim assessment. In any case, it doesn't matter how someone >>spends their votes. If many people spend votes for bootsplash, and >>bootsplash enhancements end up being a priority, then I would hope we >>would respond by incorporating them with the same priority as our own >>personal wishlists. > > > I think the point (once you learn to decode ciaranm's acidic comments) > is that this voting may result in a group of overly zealous users > skewing things away from realistic priorities. We might see a bug about > reiser4 support in g-d-s get pumped up to the top of the list, where a > bug about fixing a major but subtle flaw in base-layout might not get > any attention. (just an example (one that ciaranm will i'm sure enjoy)) > Is that really a problem though? Just because more people voted for A than B doesn't mean that the dev who chooses between the two has to do A - it simply provides a mode of input as to how many users want the feature. When a dev knows that B is probably more important, he really isn't going to care that A got more votes - the voting only becomes a determining factor when similar ideas are considered. On the other hand, there may well be many people who feel that votes == importance, and I think it ought to be made clear that this simply isn't the case - votes would serve as a way for people to say "me too" without actually cluttering up the bug report by typing "me too" into the comment box. -- Jason Rhinelander -- Gossamer Threads, Inc. > None the less, i think enabling it warrants consideration. > > -pete -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list