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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 2:07 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Except that the voting will not be indicative of what our user base |
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> actually wants. Instead, it will indicate the whim of a vocal minority |
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> of Off The Wall posters and zealots from that IRC channel I'm not |
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> allowed to talk about. Most of our users don't condone join-flooding |
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> other distributions' channels on IRC. Most of our users give at least a |
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> vague hoot about having a stable kernel and filesystem. Most of our |
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> users would rather that their ebuilds compiled, even if it meant missing |
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> out on the occasional x.x.x.1 release from upstream. However, most of |
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> those users won't be voting. |
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Those are assumptions, nothing more. |
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> We already have a good indication of how many people care about a bug -- |
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> the length of the Cc: list usually works pretty well. |
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Really? So you think that if we started measuring the CC lists that it |
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wouldn't somehow be tainted by the "vocal minority" that would otherwise |
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be voting? Your logic is totally flawed. |
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A person could easily CC: themselves on 1,000+ open bugs. However, you |
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are only allocated a certain number of votes, therefore a person has to |
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exercise economy about what things matter to them most. |
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I frankly don't understand why you're so outspoken on this issue. You can |
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ignore votes if that's what you choose to do. This is not a policy change |
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proposal, this is an enhancement request for Bugzilla. |
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It's optional for the users to use it, it's optional for us to make |
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decisions based on it. But in cases when it is used, it can be helpful to |
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determine what bugs are causing the people most pain, or what enhancements |
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are most desired. |
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Also please read: http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/16.19.shtml |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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