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| Do you want to use votes on Gentoo Bugzilla? |
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| No, thanks. |
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| What is "voting"? |
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axxackall
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 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:35 pm Post subject: Do you want to use votes on Gentoo Bugzilla? |
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| Do you know that Bugzilla software has a voting system? Here is how it works. Unfortunately, it seems like disabled on Gentoo Bugzilla. I wonder if Gentoo users would like to use it. If so, then this poll may help to push Gentoo Bugzilla admins to enable the voting. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I want bugs worked on in order of severity. Critical bugs should get immediate attention and so on down the line. If the voting was on lowest priority bugs, that'd be fine (not that I'd vote).
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aja
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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I think it would be a good idea, with the following cachets:
(1) As pjp pointed out, severity should be the highest priority. However, within the same severity class, votes might be considered.
(2) I don't think anyone is saying that the developers should be constrained to work only on the highest vote-count bugs, but this could be a form of input for them to see bugs that a lot of people are interested in seeing solved. So, I see the vote system more as feedback than as a governing principle. |
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axxackall
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| pjp wrote: | | Well, I want bugs worked on in order of severity. Critical bugs should get immediate attention and so on down the line. If the voting was on lowest priority bugs, that'd be fine (not that I'd vote). |
Severity and popularity are ortogonal.
Severity is assigned by an original submitter and later can be corrected. It reflects how serious it for system functioning (security is exposed, functionality is broken, fix or enhancement is desired, minor).
Popularity reflects how many users demands it. It cannot be changed by any other way rather than by voting (one vote per user per bug).
Imagine the bug, that expose security of some service if it is running under root. Now add that nobody runs it as root. So, it is sever, but unpopular.
Now, imagine that many (if not all) gentoo users want very minor feature in bugzilla, namely voting  which is not even broken - it's just disabled without even asking any opinion of us users. But if we will demand it - they will activate it back, I am positive about that.
Having both dimentions may force developers to implement (or fix) very minor but very popular feature, while very sever but virtually unexposible bug may wait for awhile. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:16 am Post subject: |
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I would still prefer the unpopular but severe bug be fixed prior to the minor but popular one.
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rac
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 5:25 am Post subject: |
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I've checked with one of the Bugzilla admins, and voting is intended to be enabled, and in fact is showing as enabled. Why it isn't actually working is still unknown, but voting is not disabled on purpose, and the people who are most likely to be able to fix it are aware that it is not working.
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axxackall
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | I've checked with one of the Bugzilla admins, and voting is intended to be enabled, and in fact is showing as enabled. Why it isn't actually working is still unknown, but voting is not disabled on purpose, and the people who are most likely to be able to fix it are aware that it is not working. |
Do we know about any progress here?
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panserg
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Is there any chance that voting in bugzilla will be fixed?
Do gentoo site admins need my hands helping to fix the voting functionality on Gentoo Bugzilla?
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axxackall
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bump
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