On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:03 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >> On 07/06/2016 06:30 AM, Simon King wrote: >>> >>> It seems useless to me. Thus, counter-question: Any substantial benefit >>> with this? >>> >> >> Yeah, I've worked on probably a hundred open source projects that have >> this feature in one way or another. The votes are always completely >> ignored, and users who don't know that waste their time flicking a >> switch that isn't connected to anything. >> >> Is there a single example where voting on bugs has been used effectively? > > For SageMathCloud we prioritize which bugs we fix **very much** by how > frequently users report them, which is a sort of voting. However, > SMC is also a business, not just a for-fun open source side project, > so we have to try very hard to listen to and serve our users.
Also, when developing symbolic calculus functionality in Sage we systematically searched through mailing list posts and classified the sorts of bug and functionality requests people frequently made, in order to prioritize what we needed to implement. Again, this is not "+1" voting, but it does at least illustrate that when I do things, I listen to users. If there were a voting system in trac and somebody said "I would like to work on Sage", at least I could point them to more than just the daunting list of all trac tickets, and instead say: "oh, and here are the top-voted tickets". -- William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
