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From: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:38:55
Message-Id: 200505172138.59110.lanius@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org by Brian Harring
1 On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:13, Brian Harring wrote:
2 > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:58:43AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
3 > > Stefan Schweizer wrote:
4 > > > Many bugs in bugzilla have ebuilds contributed, the work is done,
5 > > > there is just no developer to add them to the tree and review them.
6 > > > Bugvoting would allow other developers to see where they can help. For
7 > > > example I am using kde but dont read all kde bugs, so if I would know
8 > > > there is a kde bug with many votes I would maybe look at it.
9 > >
10 > > I have mixed feelings about this.
11 > >
12 > > Voting would be useful to judge which package gathers sufficient
13 > > popularity to be added to Portage for example. Currently only packages a
14 > > developer cares for are added, voting would help to get user opinion.
15 > >
16 > > On the other hand, on base system bugs for example voting would be more
17 > > a pressure tool that might not help much...
18 > >
19 > > We could enable voting on a "New Ebuilds" section and see how it goes ?
20 >
21 > Seems like a good approach in my opinion. Most of the nays have
22 > basically come down to "I don't want people voting on stuff I'm
23 > working on, I know what needs to be done, don't need extra input to
24 > discern it".
25 > Ebuild submissions fall squarely outside of that arguement, and would
26 > be a good test run of it.
27 >
28 > Personally, I'd be interested in it for actual portage bugs; that
29 > said, I'm not totally sure if I'd want it enabled _now_ since there
30 > are internal changes needed rather then more feature bloat, so voting
31 > would be ignored till internal bits are done.
32
33 So who can make the decision here?
34
35 >
36 > My 2 cents...
37 > ~harring
38 mfg, heinrich :-)
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