On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:58:43AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Stefan Schweizer wrote: > > > 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. > > I have mixed feelings about this. > > Voting would be useful to judge which package gathers sufficient > popularity to be added to Portage for example. Currently only packages a > developer cares for are added, voting would help to get user opinion. > > On the other hand, on base system bugs for example voting would be more > a pressure tool that might not help much... > > We could enable voting on a "New Ebuilds" section and see how it goes ? Seems like a good approach in my opinion. Most of the nays have basically come down to "I don't want people voting on stuff I'm working on, I know what needs to be done, don't need extra input to discern it". Ebuild submissions fall squarely outside of that arguement, and would be a good test run of it.
Personally, I'd be interested in it for actual portage bugs; that said, I'm not totally sure if I'd want it enabled _now_ since there are internal changes needed rather then more feature bloat, so voting would be ignored till internal bits are done. My 2 cents... ~harring -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
