On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Hagar Delest wrote: >> >> if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users >> decisions > > > Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a > user can vote for and votes can be reallocated, so it isn't necessarily true > that an old bug has more votes just because it's been around for longer. But
Since the number of registered users in Bugzilla increases over time, the older issues have had greater opportunity to accumulate votes. > it's true that we are not advertising the possibility to vote as much as we > used to: many new users are likely unaware that they can vote. > >>> [Rob] Google Moderator was far easier to use for users than BZ is. That >>> is >>> >>> why we received far more feedback with Moderator. I'm sorry that the >>> troglodytes don't like that. > > > Not only troglodytes. Many users interpret the votes in Bugzilla as their > opportunity to influence the OpenOffice decisions (and would find offensive > to be assimilated to troglodytes). Honestly, except for a couple of > occasions years ago when a review of "most voted issues" was done, votes are > scarcely taken into consideration. This is the problem. > Developers work on what they want to work on. This is not a problem. Most developers on the project today have their own list of items they want to work on. That is fine. Maybe we get developers who don't have a preference and would be happy to look at 10 year old feature requests instead? That would be nice, of course. But then again, if it hasn't happened in a decade then I wonder what makes it happen now? > There is room for improvement here: you once posted the most voted issues, > but if we made it regularly and we committed to fixing the most voted issues > (or, more realistically, to direct to the most voted issues people who want > to help with development or sponsor it), things would improve. > Posting the list can't hurt. Of course, I did that once and unless it escaped my notice it had zero effect. Regards, -Rob > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
