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

[Brad Roberts]

You've actually had bugs with votes fixed?  I've had a grand total of one, 
if I remember right.  Admitedly, I don't look around for things to vote on 
much.  I tend to just work on the bugs that I care about.

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:01:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Subject: Re: [phobos] Upping the number of bugzilla votes from 10 to 100
> 
> All upping the votes does is allow me to vote for my top 100 bugs instead of top 
> 10. 
> 
> 
> Every time I was about to exceed 9 votes (i.e. wanted to vote for a bug, but 
> I've already voted for 9), there was inevitably a bug that I previously voted 
> for that was closed.  So I haven't really even reached the 10 vote limit.  If 
> you up to 100, you might as well make them unlimited.
> 
> The 10-vote system scales well with more users because each user gets 10 votes.  
> I'd say leave it as is.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>
> > To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>; Discuss the 
> >internals of DMD <dmd-internals at puremagic.com>
> > Sent: Wed, December 8, 2010 3:39:57 PM
> > Subject: [phobos] Upping the number of bugzilla votes from 10 to 100
> > 
> > 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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