So during Mitchell Baker's talk on the "State of the Mozilla Project" at
the Open Source Convention, I asked why there are hardly any votes for
bugs. Her response was that voting seemed like a good idea, but was not
something that turned out to be useful in practice.
My followup questions was "Isn't the voting scheme the only way you have
of finding out what the customer wants to see implemented?" She
misunderstood my question and thought that I was asking what the
engineers were interested in seeing implemented.
First of all, I'm sure that the developers already have good ideas of
where they think they're effort should be expended. However, it seems to
me that without direct input from the users, there's a good chance that
something may be missed.
So here's my proposal: hype the bug voting some! Stick it on the main
mozilla page along side the bugzilla link. And integrate number of votes
in along with the talkback crash data, or at least keep a link to the
search page with the highest voted bugs/features.
FWIW, here's my vote list so far:
#13474: External filters/editors for textareas. This would allow you to
use your favorite editor when composing mail, e.g.
#18808: Spawned windows should inherit parent window's history
#28792: Need a "publish" command for the editor
#75371: Add a user interface for the popup windows preferences (and
other javascript stuff)
#88810: Remove code that unnecessarily focuses/raises windows
#11459: mailto: can launch external mail app or launch an url
#18266 Query IMAP folders other than INBOX for new msgs
#18729 [FEATURE] Windows integration for new mail notification
#22994 Mail reader allows spammers to set cookies to track web usage
#43278 Crossposts (same Message-ID) not marked as read in other groups
#72761 Send unsent messages fails if no folder of the account is open
#72791 if Inbox is Sent folder, show Senders not Recipients
#91052 [RFE] Notify me when someone follows up to my newsgroup message
(sound/alert/whatever)
