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

[Steve Schveighoffer]

Hm... I meant the Normal/Critical/Blocker thingy.  If that's not priority, then 
I meant whatever that field is.

But I would consider bugs marked as blockers more severe and more urgent.

I don't think the voting system will reflect the exact pain levels of the 
person.  People exaggerate.  For example, those surveys where you have 1-5, 1 = 
not likely at all, and 5 = definitely, people often circle all 5s or all 1s 
because they want to drag the curve in a certain direction.  I'd likely only 
vote 10 votes on a bug or none at all, because I don't know how to really 
measure my pain per bug.  Others who only want one bug fixed will vote 100 for 
that bug not because it's really painful but because they don't care about any 
other bugs.

Giving people one vote per bug seems reasonable.  It's basically saying, out of 
the hundreds or thousands of bugs, these are my top 10.  Like Brad says, I think 
we should ensure we use the voting system to guide the direction of bug fixing 
before we try a new voting system.  Also, if you keep voting limited like it is 
now, bugs with a large number of votes are likely to be major points of pain 
because they affect many people.

Can we have a published list somewhere of the most voted bugs?  There used to be 
the monthly "most requested features" of D, which was horrifically out of date, 
but it reminded us every month that it was there.  A monthly post to the NG of 
the top 10 or top 20 most voted bugs would help keep people focused on the votes 
IMO.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Wed, December 8, 2010 5:15:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] Upping the number of bugzilla votes from 10 to 100
> 
> The P1-P5 thing? Never knew which is most severe :o).
> 
> Andrei
> 
> On  12/8/10 1:10 PM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> > Bugs have a severity field.  I'd say use that.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> >
> >      *From:* David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com>
> >      *To:* Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> >      *Sent:* Wed, December 8, 2010 4:04:34 PM
> >      *Subject:* Re: [phobos] Upping the number of bugzilla votes from  10
> >     to 100
> >
> >     If we want a more  analog system, I'd say give every user 100 votes
> >     and allow  more than one to be used on a single bug. This way, bugs
> >      that are a huge PITA can can be given a lot of votes and ones that
> >      are a little annoying can be given a few, instead of each  user
> >     having to make an all-or-nothing  decision.
> >
> >
> >
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