How much time will D1 be around?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Nov 12 18:10:31 PST 2008


Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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

It's a good thought. In that vein, it would be nice to have negative 
vote, e.g. assert that a bug is not important. To build good statistics 
I suggest therefore (a) unlimited votes per user; (b) one vote per user 
per bug; (c) a vote can be 0 (neutral, implied); -1 (unimportant for 
me); 1 (important for me).

Andrei



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