Bug submissions, Feature requests and Voting

[Dar Scott]

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 06:11 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> Frankly, I think voting on bugs is a _bad_ idea.

Yet, consider two recent bugs: the rendering problem in scrolled fields 
leaving stripes and the failure of decompression on some data.  Those 
are now fixed and I assume will be in the next bug-fix release.  
However, the fixes seemed to come in response to list discussion.

It is very hard to prioritize bug fixes.  It is often hard to identify 
what a bug report is about.  (For example, I think "Bad Seek" is about 
those random, often repeated, compiler errors.)  A vote is a way of 
saying, please look here.

If one has support, use of that may be a way also.

And as far as what is obscure and in the corner?  How would RunRev 
know?  Well, I'm sure they have some idea.  But consider compression or 
MD5?  Are those used a little or a lot?  And just knowing what people 
use is not exactly the right measure, maybe having been burned folks 
stay away from certain things.

Dar Scott