Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-04 Thread Nate Graham
Hello folks! I often find myself explaining to users that votes on Bugzilla tickets are generally meaningless and not used by most developers to help prioritize work. After I explain this, they generally express surprise, as it's not obvious. I find myself wondering whether it would make sen

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-04 Thread Fusion Future
I do vote on Bugzilla, but given the limited development resource, I find vote less useful than the number of duplicates or CCs.

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-04 Thread Harald Sitter
Never looked at them. Never seen the benefit. On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM Nate Graham wrote: > > Hello folks! > > I often find myself explaining to users that votes on Bugzilla tickets > are generally meaningless and not used by most developers to help > prioritize work. After I explain this,

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-05 Thread Natalie Clarius
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Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-05 Thread Natalie Clarius
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Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-05 Thread Natalie Clarius
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Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
s actually give a good indication of how wide spread a bug is or are they more or less bogus? You, Natalie, find them a useful indication. How about others? Are there ways to make votes more useful even? Just as an invitation to think beyond a binary yes/no answer to the question in the subject:

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-09-03 Thread Elvis Stansvik
I noticed today that my votes on some bugs had been removed. Visiting the bugs I see there's no longer any way to vote. So I guess as a result of this discussion, voting was disabled on some products? No problem with me, but would have been nice with some sort of announcement (sorry if I missed i

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-09-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El diumenge, 3 de setembre de 2023, a les 23:45:50 (CEST), Elvis Stansvik va escriure: > I noticed today that my votes on some bugs had been removed. Visiting > the bugs I see there's no longer any way to vote. > > So I guess as a result of this discussion, voting was disabled on some > products?

Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

2023-09-05 Thread Nate Graham
Yes, I botched the communication on this, my apologies about that. Voting has now been disabled on Bugzilla. We are investigating ways to make the CC count affect the bug janitor's automatic priority categorization in its stead. Nate On 9/3/23 15:45, Elvis Stansvik wrote: I noticed today