On 5/12/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 12-May-07, at 11:09 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

>> what do you mean by 'voting' for a bug? Does it mean some sort of 'me
>> too' post designed to nag the developers? If so, that is not good. If
>
> There is a voting system in bugzilla by which you can vote for a bug
> you want fixed. The significance is that high voted bugs get fixed
> faster.

not a very rational way of developing software - if the developers
get influenced by this kind of thing, development will get skewed

Voting is not the only way to prioritize. There's also severity, which
holds higher priority over votes. In the end though it is upon the
developer to prioritize.


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