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On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 20:11 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:53:07AM +0800, Mike Gardiner wrote: |
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> > Hi Dylan, Ciaran, all |
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> > Apologies for entering this late, but from what I gather from the |
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> > discussion, there seems to be the notion of voting for "real" bugs |
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> > versus "enhancement" bugs, with some believing votes for the second |
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> > would outweigh the first, and skew the perception of what really needs |
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> > to be done. |
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> > |
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> > So I guess my question follows, is it possible/feasible to only allow |
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> > voting on bugs marked as "enhancements"? (as in the bugzilla keyword). |
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> I don't think this would do any good. Users tend to mark bugs as |
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> enhancement on a whim, from what I've seen. I'd say we should enable |
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> voting for all bugs, and users should be informed that all enhancements |
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> are considered separately from problems (your "real" bugs), and it |
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> should be possible to show the highest voted problems as such. |
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> I'm also strongly in favour of a limited number of votes per user. Along |
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> the lines of 2 votes/week for non-developers, and 4 votes/week for |
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> developers. Unused votes should NOT get carried over between weeks, to |
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> prevent vote hoarding. |
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In case you're not aware how the KDE project maintain this, each user |
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(not sure about special cases for developers, and not sure I agree with |
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there being one.) has 100 voting points that they can allocated to bugs, |
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withs a maximum of 20 on any one bug. |
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Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org> |
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