[phobos] Upping the number of bugzilla votes from 10 to 100

[Brad Roberts]

I think that until there's clear evidence that bug vote count influences 
the order in which bugs are fixed, it's all rather disheartening to the 
user base.  Many of the most highly voted on bugs have been that way since 
voting was turned on.

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> Following the 64-bit release we'll focus generally on fixing bugs. I am
> mulling over a good strategy for that, and I think part of it would be to use
> community input.
> 
> We currently have 10 votes limit per user. This number was meaningful when D
> had few users, but now that there are more users and reporters (and bug
> reports, heh) we can start leveraging the power of statistics.
> 
> To that end, I think it would help if we increased the number of votes per
> person from 10 to 100. That would help us get a smooth function of the pain
> that people are incurring for each bug.
> 
> Let me know of what you think.
> 
> 
> Andrei
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