Re: [gentoo-dev] Another call for BugVoting on bugs.gentoo.org

[R Hill]

On 5/16/05, Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> wrote:
> >>On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:45:05 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
> >>| On Monday 16 May 2005 07:08 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >>| > What, so that you can see which bugs a small but vocal group of
> >>| > ricers are interested in rather than the ones that're actually
> >>| > important?
> >>|
> >>| once again, voting is optional ... if you dont want to pay attention
> >>| to them,  then dont
> >>
> I would tend to agree with Klieber when he closed the actual bug about
> this issue that I read through a few weeks ago.  The problem with
> leaving it optional being users vote a bunch on bug X and then the
> developer says he doesn't care, and then the users bitch because 'their
> precious voice was ignored'.

They manage to do that pretty well already.
 
> Most if not all of the developers here are volunteers, and just because
> a bunch of users vote up a bug doesn't particularly make it important to
> work on.

Agreed, but it can give a good indication of the bugs that a lot of
users are running into.  Right now that's handled by swarms of "me
too" posts (and last time i checked, those couldn't be filtered by
procmail too effectively either. ;]).  Not saying those posts will
disappear of course, just pointing out that it might not be a creation
of another source of generally unwanted feedback, but a way to move
this already existing feedback into a less annoying form.

Mozilla is another good example of a bugzilla using a voting system
with positive results (and they even have windows users ;]).  But they
also use the confirmed status and discourage 'me too' posts in favor
of the vote system, which is something that might not work for Gentoo.

--de.

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