On 6/9/15 2:24 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
I vote for bugs as a polite (sneaky?) way to watch a bug's bugmail without spamming all the other CCs by adding myself to the bug's "real" CC list.
I think if Bugzilla, with its long and complex history, ever has a hope of being untangled into something better, we can't keep every feature because of all the possible ways it might be used. :)
Here, I'd suggest that the default should be to _not_ send emails for CC changes, unless a user opts into it (and maybe even not even for that, it's just spammy for anyone managing lots of bugs. But baby steps...). Net improvement, no matter what happens with voting.
I'd agree that voting could be removed. Most people know that it was added as a way to counter "+1!" type comments. But I'd counter that (1) it's unclear that it's very effective in that role and (2) I've rarely actually seen people telling people to use voting.
We have better tools now with the ability to tag and hide comments (https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/comment_tagging) which I _do_ see used frequently, as well as the ability to entirely disable commenting on bugs in extenuating circumstances. I'd like to see those further improved.
That said, there are much bigger issues with Bugzilla's UI, and removing voting is probably the smallest possible improvement. But it's probably easy to just disable it for a while, and see what happens?
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