Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug voting

[Peter Johanson]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 1:04 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Well, given that most of our users don't seem to be able to get the
> > priority field straight ("Waah! There's a tiny typo in an einfo
> > statement! BLOCKER!"), I'd be kind of sceptical about an easily rigged
> > popularity contest. I suspect we'd just end up seeing thousands of votes
> > for "add more pictures to bootsplash" and "add this horribly broken
> > kernel patch to g-d-s"...
>
> That's a grim assessment.  In any case, it doesn't matter how someone
> spends their votes.  If many people spend votes for bootsplash, and
> bootsplash enhancements end up being a priority, then I would hope we
> would respond by incorporating them with the same priority as our own
> personal wishlists.

I think the point (once you learn to decode ciaranm's acidic comments)
is that this voting may result in a group of overly zealous users
skewing things away from realistic priorities. We might see a bug about
reiser4 support in g-d-s  get pumped up to the top of the list, where a
bug about fixing a major but subtle flaw in base-layout might not get
any attention. (just an example (one that ciaranm will i'm sure enjoy))

None the less, i think enabling it warrants consideration.

-pete

>
> In any case, a bug has been created.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58568
>
> Cheers,
> Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o]
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