Given recent events, I advise caution when it comes to relying on votes to 
make important decisions.

On Tuesday, 8 November 2016 23:33:43 UTC+8, Alex Miller 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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