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

[Justin C Calvarese]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

You mean post the results of this query every month: http://goo.gl/xDqOe? It
just sounds like adding clutter to the newsgroup to me.

I don't think it's not hard to query the issue tracker if someone wants to
work on fixing a bug.

jcc7
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