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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 5:39 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> I'd hardly call 30,000 emails and however many forums posts there are |
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> "nothing". |
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Wasn't it you who called them the "vocal minority"? |
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In any event, they are our users... and ultimately the more, simple tools |
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we can give users to let us know what they think is important, the better |
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we are able to prioritize what gets worked on -- particularly enhancements |
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to our tools. |
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> No, subtle as in "this bug will cause people various really strange |
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> problems, but they won't realise what's causing it". Don't forget, the |
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> package maintainers quite often know a lot more about the package and |
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> the way it interacts with the system than the bug submitters and voters. |
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Right, a completely isolated case. As a package maintainer should know |
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more than most users. But ultimately, most bugs (that haven't been closed |
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out as INVALID/etc) are either problems with the way something works now, |
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or an enhancement request. You think that votes get cast for stupid |
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things? Do you really think our users are stupid? |
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Go on, look at KDE's bug system w/votes, or Mozilla's for that matter. |
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I'll save you the trouble: |
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KDE defects with votes: http://tinyurl.com/c5ja |
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KDE enhancements with votes: http://tinyurl.com/c5j3 |
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Mozilla bugs with votes: http://tinyurl.com/59dxl |
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Do those bugs that have votes look like a waste of time to you? The users |
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for KDE, Mozilla, etc use the voting system responsibly and I believe ours |
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will too. |
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> Well, either the voting affects developers, in which case it's a serious |
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> problem because it'll detract from the bugs which are *actually* |
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> important, or it won't affect developers, in which case your claims |
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> above are effectively meaningless. |
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It won't influence any developers (like you) who choose to ignore the |
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votes. For others, it will be a tool like any other (severity, priority, |
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etc) to help determine what needs attention. It's not a mandate. |
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For developers such as yourself, what are you worried about? Ignore the |
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votes and keep working on your buglist like you normally would. I fail to |
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see the problem here. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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