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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 6:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> I think votes will get cast for trivial cosmetic features (example: |
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> bootsplash) rather than the subtle can-make-your-system-die-horribly |
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> bugs. So, for those kinds of bugs, we'll either have to ignore the |
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> voting (which pretty much defeats the object of having votes at all) or |
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> focus on the 'popular' enhancements at the expense of having a working |
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> system. |
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Why speculate? Especially when it's not happening elsewhere in other large |
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open-source projects that have voting turned on? |
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> I am worried that I will see posts saying "why are you ignoring the |
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> several hundred votes on this bug?" on bugs for small cosmetic issues |
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> (example: bootsplash) when there are far more important bugs which don't |
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> attract votes. Although *I* will be ignoring the votes, the voters won't |
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> be. |
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Why are you worried about something that hasn't happened? You're putting |
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the cart in front of the horse. Voting works well for other large |
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projects using bugzilla, and there's nothing that would suggest it |
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wouldn't work for us. If vocal/spamming forum users were a problem for |
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bugzilla, dot.kde.org users would have made a mess of bugs.kde.org by now. |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson [absinthe@g.o] |
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