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

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 8 14:46:46 PST 2010


On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 12/8/10 1:58 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> > Bugzilla allows this already. We just need to decide how to configure
> > it. Setting it to 100 votes with up to 100 per bug is just a matter of
> > setting those two values.
> > 
> > I'm more concerned about us actually using that to weigh heavily in what
> > gets fixed.
> 
> Great! Then could you please do that? Say e.g. allocate 50 points for now. I
> don't think it does any harm, and it does take time for statistics to
> accumulate.
> 
> Andrei

I don't think we have concensus (or even a majority) that suggests moving 
forward.  I think it does do harm.  I think it suggests that we pay 
attention to votes, when reality suggests more strongly that we don't.

Fix the behavior first, imho.


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