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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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Until recently, Gentoo's Bugzilla didn't even have the bug-votes feature |
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and some devs were actively against the idea if one read the debate here |
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on it. The case they made was that bug votes reflect only user |
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popularity, and as such, often tend to obscure the "importance" of the |
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bug, arguments that they could simply ignore it if it wasn't useful info |
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for them not withstanding. I expect there are still devs of that opinion. |
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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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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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