Lobbying for Votes for my Bugs!

[Igor Couto]

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:46  AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>> This message is an open invitation to others, to come and cast votes
>> for some of my Bug Reports. As you know, under the new voting
>> system,
>> the more votes a bug report has, the quicker it will be fixed.
>
> Not necessarily, Igor. It just means there's more interest from us 
> users
> in having it fixed. There are other factors that the RunRev team will
> use to determine what gets fixed first - severity and platform are two
> major item (IMHO) that can help determine what gets fixed when, and
> those have nothing to do with the number of votes.
>

Very true. Nevertheless, if the majority of the bugs fall into the same 
level of 'severity', and there are only a limited number of developers 
available to handle them (just in theory), then the votes will be, 
indeed, critical in determining which ones will be looked at first - 
and how many resources are put into overcoming a specific bug or 
problem area.

There are, at this stage - and in my limited experience - very *few* 
bugs which are CRASHING, but *many* which are 'normal' show-stoppers in 
the particular areas of the program that we have to deal with 
consistently (such as Unicode, or Graphics). Therefore, the votes are 
critical in this scenario, in directing the Rev team as to whether they 
should focus their attention on these areas, as opposed to, say, for 
instance, Database and Networking issues.

> Votes just help provide a rudder for RunRev when evaluating bugs of
> similar "weight" to help get those that are more important to us done
> earlier if possible.
>

So, as you can see, the voting will likely influence, indeed, the speed 
in which certain bugs are fixed .

We might all be looking at this from the programming perspective, but 
there is also a BUSINESS perspective to consider. The voting system 
will help show the Rev folks which areas in the IDE have the most 
sought-after features, the most widely used ones, the most needed - and 
again, this will help them determine how many resources to allocated to 
each area. If everyone places votes for bugs related to Database 
issues, and only a handfull of people vote for the resolution of 
Unicode bugs, this IS telling them where to concentrate their efforts, 
and which bugs to solve QUICKLY - no matter how SEVERE the Unicode bugs 
might be...

Thanks for you point of view, though! - but don't forget to go and 
VOTE!!!!

Many thanks,

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Igor de Oliveira Couto
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