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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:27:29 -0400 Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| On Tuesday 27 July 2004 1:04 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Well, given that most of our users don't seem to be able to get the |
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| > priority field straight ("Waah! There's a tiny typo in an einfo |
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| > statement! BLOCKER!"), I'd be kind of sceptical about an easily |
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| > rigged popularity contest. I suspect we'd just end up seeing |
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| > thousands of votes for "add more pictures to bootsplash" and "add |
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| > this horribly broken kernel patch to g-d-s"... |
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| That's a grim assessment. In any case, it doesn't matter how someone |
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| spends their votes. If many people spend votes for bootsplash, and |
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| bootsplash enhancements end up being a priority, then I would hope we |
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| would respond by incorporating them with the same priority as our own |
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| personal wishlists. |
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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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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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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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