On 9 December 2010 14:47, Steve Schveighoffer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I agree. But I think that increasing the limit to (say) 20 bugs per person would be OK. Not many people would use it, and the existing statistics would remain valid. > 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. Who do you mean by "people"? Do you mean "Walter"? > In effect, posting to the NG is like a squeaky wheel calling for grease. Yes. But where the hell is the grease? It's not actually created by the squeaking, unfortunately. The problem is that there are 70 bugs/month fixed, but >150 bugs reported/month. (incidentally 35/month come from bearophile). _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
