How much time will D1 be around?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Christopher Wright" <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:gfeho4$2iuo$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> <snip>
>>> How about voting for bugs? That would be fair, and it would make sure that
>>> the bugs that hurt more people get fixed faster.
>> Bugzilla has a voting system, in which you basically vote for the n issues
>> that you most want fixed, where n is a per-product configuration parameter.
>> But it doesn't seem to be enabled on our Bugzilla.
>>
>> Walter - if Brad enables this feature, do you promise you'll take notice of
>> it in the process of deciding what to fix next?
> 
> My suspicion is that would turn out to be about as useful as that "D
> wishlist" eigenpoll thingy somebody set up.  As far as I can tell that
> only reflects the opinions of the few people who have a lot of extra
> time to bother with voting.

However, bugs are a more structured space than wishes. I'd suggest Brad 
to enable the voting feature experimentally and with an understanding 
there's no underlying promise. I'd personally be curious to gather some 
insight into what bugs are the most annoying, and I'm sure Walter could 
use such information to good effect.

Andrei