On 5/16/05, Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:45:05 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>| 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'.
They manage to do that pretty well already. > 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 > work on. Agreed, but it can give a good indication of the bugs that a lot of users are running into. Right now that's handled by swarms of "me too" posts (and last time i checked, those couldn't be filtered by procmail too effectively either. ;]). Not saying those posts will disappear of course, just pointing out that it might not be a creation of another source of generally unwanted feedback, but a way to move this already existing feedback into a less annoying form. Mozilla is another good example of a bugzilla using a voting system with positive results (and they even have windows users ;]). But they also use the confirmed status and discourage 'me too' posts in favor of the vote system, which is something that might not work for Gentoo. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
