On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:27 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> On 11/4/10 9:22 PM, Austin English wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:02 AM, James McKenzie >> <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> Yes, there are bugs with thousands of votes, but that just >>> shows the scope of effect of a particular bug. >>> >> I'm not sure where you got that idea: >> >> http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&votes=100&order=votes%2Cbug_id >> >> Looked at the list and one of the bugs has over 150 votes and it was > CLOSED DUPLICATE and the votes were not moved to the original bug. This is > another shortcoming of using bug voting that exists or existed in Bugzilla. > I think Launchpad has the exact same issues but somehow in Ubuntu the voting is much more useful than in Bugzilla... One of the best ways to trace a common mistake in Ubuntu right after the release is to look at the votes, these issues usually get a lot og attention and they automatically get a higher priority... > > James McKenzie > > > >