Give a bug a hug

[Richmond]

"the severity of a bug be determined by the team"

Presumably by "the team" you mean LiveCode Central?

Somewhere in this discussion there was the idea that, perhaps, "the 
team" already had so
much on their plate that both determining the severity of bugs and 
sorting them out
were handled by people outwith "the team."

On 8.10.19 9:39, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 10/7/19 10:13 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>
> > I had extensive discussion about the Bugzilla voting system with 
> Kevin, Mark Waddingham, and others there at LiveCode Ltd., in response 
> to the reactions many members of our community (including yours truly) 
> expressed when the voting was removed from the bug DB.
> >
> > What I learned was that although it seems like a good idea, in 
> practice it winds up being a less useful indicator of the "importance" 
> of a bug than one might intuitively think.
> >
> > In dry terms, one of the issues with it is that it conflates two 
> very different signals: one for the severity of a bug to the 
> individual experiencing it, and another for the number of people 
> affected by the bug.
>
> Well, yes and no. But that's why I was suggesting that the severity of 
> a bug be determined by the team, and not by a bug report's popularity. 
> The CC field is somewhat useful, but nobody ever removes themselves 
> from the field (is that even possible?), and stale votes can skew the 
> benefits of the quantitative effects.
>
> Earlier I avoided commenting on the politicking and grandstanding 
> issues concerning voting. There are interesting arguments around 
> democracy and power in the Federalist Papers. For a voting framework 
> we could do worse than adopt Scott Raney's proxyfor.me.
>