On 1/21/2015 1:14 AM, Joakim wrote:
Probably because Microsoft has so many millions of users that their bug tracker
would be awash with noise. Google allows anybody with a google account to post
bugs or comment on them for Chrome and Android, which has led to a ton of noise
on their public bug trackers, along with the benefit of a bunch of bug reports
they'd otherwise never have gotten:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list
Is it worth the tradeoff? Maybe not for them, considering the many untriaged
bugs on their trackers, which they haven't bothered putting somebody on
filtering.
I don't see how Microsoft can afford to miss those important reports. Sure,
there'll be a lot of noise, but you just put someone on there to filter them.
And besides, with all the vaunted machine intelligence we've been hearing about
lately, surely some sort of automated filter could be devised.
For example, one could automatically filter out borderline illiterate
submissions, and close duplicates.
Or one could make it a public tracker, and let the crowd filter them, sort of
like reddit.
