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

[David Simcha]

Noone is saying that bug voting should be completely democratic (or at least
I don't think so).  Of course whoever is committing the time and effort has
the final say.  IMHO the main purpose of voting is to shine attention on
bugs that might otherwise be overlooked, not to "force" people to fix the
bugs with the highest vote total.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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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