Hi William, On 2016-07-06, 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.
I see a benefit of votes by users (or one should say: Feed-back from users). But the trac plugin would create votes by *developers*. That seems less useful to me. Cheers, Simon -- 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.
