On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 3:32:09 PM UTC+1, vdelecroix wrote: > > On 05/07/16 10:25, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 3:00:57 PM UTC+1, vdelecroix wrote: > >> > >> On 05/07/16 09:53, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >>> As an experiment, we would like to > >>> install https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/VotePlugin > >>> on trac.sagemath.org. This would allow voting on tickets (w.r.t. > their > >>> popularity, etc), > >>> and probably more. > >>> > >>> Voting would be restricted to people with a trac account. > >>> > >>> Any substantial objections to this? > >> > >> Yes. What is the point of voting for tickets? > >> > > > > 1) well, there are always more tickets to work on than humanely possible > to > > handle quickly. > > It would be good to know which tickets are more urgent than others from > the > > community point of view. > > If only trac users are allowed to vote, I do not see the point of this > popularity contest. If everybody was allowed to vote, we would at least > have an idea of user needs. >
the problem is that it is easy to abuse. Somebody goes and votes on a ticket 100 times, just for "fun". > > Moreover, I am not sure any developer would actually care about the > votes. How would you ensure that highly popular tickets are worked > on/reviewed in priority? > Well, we certainly have an substantial anarchist element present here :-), but given that there are people paid to work on Sage... > > 2) WP7 > > What does it mean? https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/149 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
