On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Thilo Bangert <[email protected]> posted > [email protected], excerpted below, on Sun, 10 May > 2009 10:51:38 +0200: > >> also, i feel voting for bugs is completely underutilized. votes make it >> apparent to the developers which bugs bug a lot of people. the incentive >> to fix those first is there... > > I know I've never use the bug vote feature, partly because I simply > forget it's there now, and partly due to confusion from seeing the > earlier rants against it. Such confusion makes for pretty strong > negative conditioning. >
Also, most people I know use CCing-frequency as a measure of how many people are facing a particular bug, and what importance level to assign to it. Votes only cause unnecessary noise and irritation -- worse than "me too!" comments. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan
