How much time will D1 be around?

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> 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.

Fair enough, but it's going to be hard to enforce if it's not enforced
by the system.

Also, my reason for voting for that one was that I was thinking of the
votes as "hey Walter you should pay attention to this one."   If
that's what it means, then the umbrella ones should be voted up even
more because they contain a lot of useful information about what's
bugging people.

--bb