How much time will D1 be around?

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Brad Roberts wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Sure, let's give it a try.
> 
> Ok, enabled for the D product.  Each registered user has 10 votes and can 
> vote only once per bug.  As examples, I voted for bugs 313 and 314.
> 
> You can use this query to get a sorted list of bugs on which there are at 
> least one vote:
> 
>   http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&votes=1&order=bugs.votes,bugs.bug_id
> 
> To construct the query yourself: on the advanced search page, put a 1 in 
> the "Only issues with at least ___ votes" box.
> 
> Later,
> Brad

I'd like to suggest that 'umbrella' sorts of bugs are off limits for 
votes.  Those are good tracking issues, but aren't the sort of things that 
are generally addressed as a specific fix.

An example, sorry Bill: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1856

Maybe better said: I suspect that Walter is unlikely to take votes for 
those sorts of bugs seriously and the impact votes might have at all are 
better placed on individual specific issues.

Just a thought,
Brad