On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jim Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > There are at least 10,000 open bugs in the Firefox OS product (it looks like bugzilla stops at 10K?). The System component (which does not include the 18 individual system sub-components) has 1300 bugs. The "Gaia" component also has 1300 bugs. Email, contacts has 600, SMS has 500. Now you could argue that it's the module owners fault that things get so out of hand, and that voting won't help us here (I disagree there too, but that is a different discussion). My point is that there are a lot of bugs that simply don't get looked at, especially those filed in Gaia, General or System. Voting is a form of crowdsourcing. Yes it can be skewed by a reddit post, but things can also be skewed by Gaia developers talking about "users" on the mailing list. It seems weird to argue so strongly against trying this before we've had a chance to validate it for Firefox OS. If we look at the list so far [1], I'd say we have some good ideas about what Foxfooders want. As we spread voting as a way to +1 feature requests, I think this will become even more helpful. Maybe you're right and this will prove too noisy and skewed, but let's give the participation team a chance to test this out before we call a stop to it. As Peter said, this is only visibility and not about any enforced prioritization. 1.) http://foxfooding.github.io/dashboard/
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