Thanks Alex for bringing this up.
You guys (quite transparently) have a way of dealing with
issues/updates/contribs/discussions which is a little controversial
compared with others', and many of us see both sides of that choice. So
it's definitely good to see that votes count, and even more to let people
know.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote:

> In the spirit of the US election today, I thought I would mention voting
> on Clojure tickets. Clojure manages bugs and enhancement requests in JIRA
> <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ>. Anyone can create a JIRA account
> <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/Signup!default.jspa> and vote on open
> tickets in the system (no contributor agreement
> <http://clojure.org/community/contributing> is required to vote).
>
> In the core team, we look at votes on tickets to be aware of what the
> community cares about and as one input to the order in which tickets are
> considered. However, the most-voted tickets in the system have fewer than
> 30 votes and I suspect that there are many thousands of people with
> opinions about which of these tickets are important.
>
> If you'd like to see the lists of the highest voted tickets in the system,
> you can do so in these reports:
> - Highest voted defects
> <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=11301>
> - Highest voted enhancements
> <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=11302>
>
> Andy Fingerhut also has a weighted voting report
> <http://jafingerhut.github.io/clj-ticket-status/CLJ-top-tickets-by-weighted-vote.html>
> that updates about once a week. This show a different perspective - I'm not
> sure which is more useful but I look at both.
>
> If you'd like to learn more about the process:
> - Overview <http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Contributing> of
> contribution links
> - JIRA workflow <http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/JIRA+workflow>
> - A blog I wrote describing the process
> <http://insideclojure.org/2015/05/01/contributing-clojure/>
>
> A few examples of highly voted issues that have been included in 1.9 so
> far:
> - CLJ-1224 <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1224> Records do not
> cache hash like normal maps (21 votes)
> - CLJ-1298 <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1298> Add more type
> predicate fns to core (18 votes)
> - CLJ-1744 <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1744> Unused
> destructured local not cleared, causes memory leak (17 votes)
> - CLJ-1242 <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1242> = on sorted
> collections with different key types incorrectly throws (7 votes)
> - CLJ-401 <http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-401>   Add seqable?
> predicate (7 votes)
>
> Alex
>
>
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