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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> posted |
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> 200905101051.43926.bangert@g.o, excerpted below, on Sun, 10 May |
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> 2009 10:51:38 +0200: |
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>> also, i feel voting for bugs is completely underutilized. votes make it |
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>> apparent to the developers which bugs bug a lot of people. the incentive |
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>> to fix those first is there... |
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> I know I've never use the bug vote feature, partly because I simply |
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> forget it's there now, and partly due to confusion from seeing the |
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> earlier rants against it. Such confusion makes for pretty strong |
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> negative conditioning. |
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Also, most people I know use CCing-frequency as a measure of how many |
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people are facing a particular bug, and what importance level to |
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assign to it. Votes only cause unnecessary noise and irritation -- |
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worse than "me too!" comments. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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