On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Steve Schveighoffer <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hm... I meant the Normal/Critical/Blocker thingy. If that's not priority, > then > I meant whatever that field is. > > But I would consider bugs marked as blockers more severe and more urgent. > > I don't think the voting system will reflect the exact pain levels of the > person. People exaggerate. For example, those surveys where you have 1-5, > 1 = > not likely at all, and 5 = definitely, people often circle all 5s or all 1s > because they want to drag the curve in a certain direction. I'd likely > only > vote 10 votes on a bug or none at all, because I don't know how to really > measure my pain per bug. Others who only want one bug fixed will vote 100 > for > that bug not because it's really painful but because they don't care about > any > other bugs. > > Giving people one vote per bug seems reasonable. It's basically saying, > out of > the hundreds or thousands of bugs, these are my top 10. Like Brad says, I > think > we should ensure we use the voting system to guide the direction of bug > fixing > before we try a new voting system. Also, if you keep voting limited like > it is > now, bugs with a large number of votes are likely to be major points of > pain > because they affect many people. > > Can we have a published list somewhere of the most voted bugs? There used > to be > the monthly "most requested features" of D, which was horrifically out of > date, > but it reminded us every month that it was there. A monthly post to the NG > of > the top 10 or top 20 most voted bugs would help keep people focused on the > votes > IMO. > You mean post the results of this query every month: http://goo.gl/xDqOe? It just sounds like adding clutter to the newsgroup to me. I don't think it's not hard to query the issue tracker if someone wants to work on fixing a bug. jcc7
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