Lobbying for Votes for my Bugs!

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Fri Sep 19 00:55:01 EDT 2003


At 11:29 AM +1000 9/19/2003, Igor Couto wrote:
>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.

This surely will not be the case if the votes turn into a popularity 
contest, subject to lobbying, email campaigns for other people to 
vote for "your" bugs, and so on.

(I mean, come on.)

I see votes on bug reports (as opposed to enhancement requests) as 
being useful mostly in gauging how many people have run into a 
particular bug (and found it hard or impossible to work around). That 
usefulness, such as it is, will disappear pretty fast if the votes 
are perceived to have been affected by other factors, and become 
unreliable in gauging just how much of a problem each bug is for Rev 
users.
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