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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting
  @ 2004-07-27 17:04 99% ` Ciaran McCreesh
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From: Ciaran McCreesh @ 2004-07-27 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:54:49 -0400 Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| 1.  Without bug voting, there's no way to determine what bugs are most
| important to the public (or at least to the people using Bugzilla,
| which is really *our* public, in a working sense).

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"...

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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