On 11/23/2015 08:56 PM, Peter Dolanjski wrote: > I suppose the main thing I'm trying to solve for is bringing visibility > to features/ideas that many people care about - for two audiences: 1) > Mozilla employees for us to assign our resources and 2) the community in > order to highlight items that many people care about as an identifier of > things that community members can pick up and run with (with impact).
In Thunderbird, I once tried fixing bugs based on how many votes they had. It helped me find a few issues I wouldn't have otherwise, but after those, the list ended up being a distraction from other, more worthy bugs. In Gaia at least, prioritizing bugs based on votes seems even less valuable, since there are a lot fewer bugs filed; at its worst, the Music app had about 300 open bugs (there are now 156), whereas the submodule I own in Thunderbird, "Folder and Message Lists", has 848, and I've never seen it below 700. We also have far fewer people working on Thunderbird, meaning that the number of devs per open bug is probably 100-fold lower than in Firefox OS. Based on my experience with both Thunderbird and Firefox OS, it's totally possible for a module owner in Firefox OS to have a rough understanding of *every* open bug in their module. I think it should be the module owner's responsibility to ensure that all the bugs in their module are valid (i.e. we'd accept patches for them) and prioritized appropriately. For my apps at least, I already have specific long-term goals for nearly all the open bugs, and number of votes doesn't really help me.[1] If we really need some sort of informal poll for what bugs people want to see fixed first, I think we should just ask dogfooders. They're already established as a group of people who care about the product, and we can reduce the affect of Reddit-skew by simply saying to each of them, "Please list the 10 bugs you'd most like to see fixed in Firefox OS". - Jim [1] That said, most of the long-term plans are just in my head. If anyone has a good idea for where to post plans like this, I'd be interested to hear it. _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
