Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting++

[Frank van de Pol]

vote++;

it gives a nice understanding on the demand for certain enhancement/ebuild
requests. It's also a nice, low-overhead way for people to say 'heck, I ran
in that bug too and would indeed welcome to see it fixed'.

Of course there might always be people that abuse such a system to get a
stronger voice, but the developer's common sense will for sure deal with
that. After all, the voting is not (and should not be) an official
priority-setting tool. I'd be happy to use it as hint though.

Perhaps it might be usefull to include the 'top 10', or top most of last
week/month entries in the GWN, like the bug squashing/creeping statistics.

Frank.


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:54:49PM -0400, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Stuart touched on this a month ago (see: Tools to help QA, 6/25/04) and I
> didn't see any arguments for, or against it.
>
> My thoughts (I'm in favor of bug voting):
>
> 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).
>

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