Paul Brossier wrote: > Hi, > > With all these great news about the BTS these days, it would be nice to > think about adding a voting feature: a way to count the number of users > that are annoyed by each bug. It could be either a simple way to submit > a follow-up to say 'hey, i faced this one too', either just a button on > bugreport.cgi, or something else. > > Provided the system gets used, this could help us to evaluate the > priorities of our users, highlight bugs that annoy the most users, and > have another view on WNPP packages. This should also encourage > maintainers to send updates to the BTS.
Maybe a good place to start would be to cross reference BTS with the popularity-contest database. This doesn't measure annoyance, of course, but it's a a great measure of how many people are potentially effected by a bug. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Work Blog http://blog.educause.edu/StuartYeates/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]