Since I started this conversation, I figured i ought to jump back in. In no way do I think Rev should do way with Bugzilla. Publicly disclosing bugs is useful. And it lends an air of credibility to one's products that is hard to attain any other way. Getting the community's input on what bugs are most important to fix is also a wonderful idea and one that I'm sure informs RR's decisions about where to spend Euros on updates. I would not want them to suspend this operation.
That said, I still think Bugzilla is too uninformative, too difficult to use, and too obscure in the community to be as useful as it well could be. For openers, I'd like to see the Bugzilla database get more visibility somehow. Perhaps on the RR site there could be a link to a listing of the top 20 or 25 or 50 or whatever bugs. (Of course, that might not be as positive for marketing as I'd like to see!) Maybe there could be a mailing list on bugs and feature requests that could be a broadcast list to which one could subscribe and which would provide regular updates and lists. I don't know. Somewhere there's a way to approach this. I use RevZilla to manage my interaction with Bugzilla and I just discovered today that if you look at voting, you can get a list of all bugs with 1 or more votes, ranked in order by how many votes they have. Maybe that could become the source of some more visible way to expose Bugzilla and its contents? On 2/25/06, Rob Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, et al: > > >> Voting says "This is my relative (among outstanding bugs) priority for > >> fixing the bug." > >> > > Consider voting as contributing to a proposed budget for RRLtd's R&D + > Support: > > RRLtd gives you the opportunity to distribute $100 [ie 100 votes] among > all the outstanding bug reports and enhancement requests, with the > proviso that you could not allocate more than $5 [votes] to any single > item. RRLtd then distributes all the unallocated $ [votes] however it > sees fit. > > Like government, the larger the proportion of those voting, the greater > the influence of the vote on the vote takers. > > Like government, your criticism carries less validity if you don't vote. > > So vote early and often! > > Rob Cozens > CCW, Serendipity Software Company > > "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three; > Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." > > from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631) > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution