On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Steve Schveighoffer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schveiguy@yahoo.com">schveiguy@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hm... I meant the Normal/Critical/Blocker thingy. If that's not priority, then<br>
I meant whatever that field is.<br>
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But I would consider bugs marked as blockers more severe and more urgent.<br>
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I don't think the voting system will reflect the exact pain levels of the<br>
person. People exaggerate. For example, those surveys where you have 1-5, 1 =<br>
not likely at all, and 5 = definitely, people often circle all 5s or all 1s<br>
because they want to drag the curve in a certain direction. I'd likely only<br>
vote 10 votes on a bug or none at all, because I don't know how to really<br>
measure my pain per bug. Others who only want one bug fixed will vote 100 for<br>
that bug not because it's really painful but because they don't care about any<br>
other bugs.<br>
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Giving people one vote per bug seems reasonable. It's basically saying, out of<br>
the hundreds or thousands of bugs, these are my top 10. Like Brad says, I think<br>
we should ensure we use the voting system to guide the direction of bug fixing<br>
before we try a new voting system. Also, if you keep voting limited like it is<br>
now, bugs with a large number of votes are likely to be major points of pain<br>
because they affect many people.<br>
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Can we have a published list somewhere of the most voted bugs? There used to be<br>
the monthly "most requested features" of D, which was horrifically out of date,<br>
but it reminded us every month that it was there. A monthly post to the NG of<br>
the top 10 or top 20 most voted bugs would help keep people focused on the votes<br>
IMO.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You mean post the results of this query every month:<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://goo.gl/xDqOe">http://goo.gl/xDqOe</a>? It just sounds like adding clutter to the newsgroup to me. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; ">I don't think it's not hard to query the issue tracker if someone wants to work on fixing a bug.</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>jcc7</div></div>