On 5/17/05, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2005 08:01 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:45:05 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>wrote: > >>| 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'. Personally if users want crap that bad, > they can submit the code themselves.
Do you see such kind of bitching anywhere in the kde project? On the bugs where I looked I dont see anything, seems like people know that voting wont count as a means of pressure for developers. > > 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 Many bugs in bugzilla have ebuilds contributed, the work is done, there is just no developer to add them to the tree and review them. Bugvoting would allow other developers to see where they can help. For example I am using kde but dont read all kde bugs, so if I would know there is a kde bug with many votes I would maybe look at it. > work on. I think that if this is made clear enough somewhere, them this > could work. Obviously voting is a very nice tool that could help out a > lot of people who use it. It's just not worth it (IMHO) when it annoys > the other half of the people who don't use it. We can alternatively introduce a customilzable Bugzilla, developers who dont want to see Votes can turn them off and will not see the Vote counts for bugs :) -- Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
