How much time will D1 be around?

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> > 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

I'm not going to spend my time modifying the bugzilla code, so negative  
votes are out.  Additionally, I don't want to see people getting into a 
vote war.  Express your opinion, not that someone elses opinions are 
irrelevant.  If a bug is a non-bug, then it should be just closed.

As to why a limit, so that people are forced to be particular.  There's 
limited bandwidth, so pick those that are really important to you.  As 
they're fixed, move the vote to something else really important.

Again, I'll do what the community wants within the bounds of the current 
capabilities.  So if the number of votes or the number of votes per person 
per bug needs to be increased I certainly can.

Later,
Brad