Moving a File

[Dave]

On 8 Mar 2007, at 17:48, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>
>> I was more thinking about the others that would waste time  
>> considering whether or not to vote for it, plus the wasted time  
>> for the people at RunRev to look at it in the database and  
>> schedule it in or whatever they do,
>
> I hate to continue this thread,

Why exactly?

> but just for clarification, votes have no weight at all in "bugs"  
> like this one. Any bug report about a crash, or a documentation  
> error, or anything similar will be fixed without regard to votes at  
> all. In general, voting only has weight when relatively minor bugs  
> are being considered (or feature requests) and the team members  
> want to get an idea of how many people think the issue is  
> important. Even then, votes are only one of many considerations  
> that apply when they choose what to work on. Documentation errors  
> require no votes at all, nor should they. Crashes are always fixed  
> with top priority.

Then why did people say they would vote for it if I entered it? If  
votes don't count as you say, then there is even less reason to enter  
it into the database in the first place!

> Regarding the team "wasting time" reading Bugzilla: the team uses  
> the database as a checklist, and it actually saves them a great  
> deal of time because it provides a consolidated list for them to  
> consult. They don't have time to monitor the mailing list for  
> issues. If your issue isn't on the checklist, they won't see it.  
> That's all there is to it.
> Someone on the team looks at the database daily. I understand that  
> it takes some effort to enter issues into the database, and the  
> team is very grateful to those who do. If something is important to  
> you, the one and only way to bring it to their attention is to get  
> it onto that checklist somehow; you can do that by entering a  
> report yourself or by writing to either of the email addresses that  
> have been mentioned here.

Exactly, if it were just "fixed" it wouldn't need to go into the  
database and they would have N less entries to look at.

All the Best
Dave