On 3/20/13, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >> 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. >> > > I was curious to check my intuition on this. So with a bit of effort > I was able to get the following data out of Bugzilla, showing the > yearly percentage of enhancement or feature issue types have had at > least one vote. So it is showing for issues entered in that year, > what % of those issues have received votes. > > Year %Votes > 2002 45% > 2003 39% > 2004 34% > 2005 31% > 2006 30% > 2007 24% > 2008 23% > 2009 23% > 2010 14% > 2011 5% > 2012 6% > 2013 2% > > I see a trend here, a very strong one. Plot it and you see a nearly > linear trend (r = - 0.98). Older issues have received more votes > than new issuers. > > There could be several reasons for this: > > 1) Older issues are better issues because they were entered by smarter > people. But then the linear trend is then odd. Did people become > less smart in such a regular way over the years? > > 2) Older issues have been around longer so they have had a longer > opportunity to be voted on. This very naturally would explain a > linear trend.
+1 > > 3) Users have become less interested in or aware of voting. But > again, it hard to explain the gradual linear trend. Why for example, > would users in 2010 entering an issue not even vote for their own > issue 90% of the time, but in 2002 nearly half of those issues > received votes? > > In any case, this is one reason why I take the old vote counts cum > grano salis. For whatever reason the votes are biased toward older > issues. > > -Rob > >>>> [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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
