From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4H8JtJV020859 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 08:19:56 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so2707192wri for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:19:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ct4LjEY/M1H2rgTzE7mE/mNHjZ72e9mNhNKWBKKTp05MPo1kdgm41VYuW08A3k3XuOIXzJtX4paxMXwshhQts5Og32G4OBxR1Jh1ylVW0ZURaLq2iPTUfYSxOEHKJi/4nxrtVKVC4pj2cxiPoNp/UCRQ8NCkGxi62QyLcN3b8dk= Received: by 10.54.41.77 with SMTP id o77mr4233914wro; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.152.4 with HTTP; Tue, 17 May 2005 01:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 02:19:56 -0600 From: R Hill To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4289676B.9070503@egr.msu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200505170058.45844.lanius@gentoo.org> <200505161945.05269.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050517010139.53c90155@snowdrop> <200505162010.01370.vapier@gentoo.org> <4289676B.9070503@egr.msu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j4H8JtJV020859 X-Archives-Salt: 17774063-430c-4cb1-a311-5ace5def8865 X-Archives-Hash: be52a81c508190b6834e47eccd8eafb2 On 5/16/05, Alec Warner wrote: > >>On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:45:05 -0400 Mike Frysinger > >>| On Monday 16 May 2005 07:08 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>| > What, so that you can see which bugs a small but vocal group of > >>| > ricers are interested in rather than the ones that're actually > >>| > important? > >>| > >>| once again, voting is optional ... if you dont want to pay attention > >>| to them, then dont > >> > I would tend to agree with Klieber when he closed the actual bug about > this issue that I read through a few weeks ago. The problem with > leaving it optional being users vote a bunch on bug X and then the > developer says he doesn't care, and then the users bitch because 'their > precious voice was ignored'. They manage to do that pretty well already. > Most if not all of the developers here are volunteers, and just because > a bunch of users vote up a bug doesn't particularly make it important to > work on. Agreed, but it can give a good indication of the bugs that a lot of users are running into. Right now that's handled by swarms of "me too" posts (and last time i checked, those couldn't be filtered by procmail too effectively either. ;]). Not saying those posts will disappear of course, just pointing out that it might not be a creation of another source of generally unwanted feedback, but a way to move this already existing feedback into a less annoying form. Mozilla is another good example of a bugzilla using a voting system with positive results (and they even have windows users ;]). But they also use the confirmed status and discourage 'me too' posts in favor of the vote system, which is something that might not work for Gentoo. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list