Thilo Bangert <bang...@gentoo.org> posted 200905101051.43926.bang...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 10 May 2009 10:51:38 +0200:
> also, i feel voting for bugs is completely underutilized. votes make it > apparent to the developers which bugs bug a lot of people. the incentive > to fix those first is there... Until recently, Gentoo's Bugzilla didn't even have the bug-votes feature and some devs were actively against the idea if one read the debate here on it. The case they made was that bug votes reflect only user popularity, and as such, often tend to obscure the "importance" of the bug, arguments that they could simply ignore it if it wasn't useful info for them not withstanding. I expect there are still devs of that opinion. I know I've never use the bug vote feature, partly because I simply forget it's there now, and partly due to confusion from seeing the earlier rants against it. Such confusion makes for pretty strong negative conditioning. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
