David Coppit wrote:
>
> So during Mitchell Baker's talk on the "State of the Mozilla Project" at
> the Open Source Convention,
Ooof, that must have been a rough gig: "Well, it's like four years now,
still nothing anywhere near ready to release. But we do have some
'liberating' commie graphics. There's coffee and cookies in the lobby,
thanks for listening."
We gonna get a transcript of that, Maozilla Politburo?
> 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.
>
"No American can seriously again say 'my vote doesn't count.'" - Bill
Clinton, referring to the 2000 US Presidential election in which
millions of votes were not counted. Honest to God, he actually said
that.
> 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.
>
You mean "she 'misunderstood' my question".
> 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.
>
Such as performance and usablility, there's a good chance that they
could be missed. Oh wait, they've already been missed by orders of
magnitude.
> 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:
>
Well that's the whole problem David, it ain't worth a proverbial hill of
beans. AOL's Maozilla Politburo never has wanted and most certainly
does not now want user input. Voting only works when the votes don't go
down the shitter. Since that's all voting for bugs is, and it isn't
going to change, there are only three options available:
1. Play your violin while AOL HQ burns. This is probably the most
productive choice in terms of results gotten vs. effort expended, since
regardless of what anybody outside (and many inside) of AOL does, it's a
near certainty the results will be the same.
2. Bitch. Loudly. Plainly. Incessantly. In public. Not in some
hidden "bugzilla" gulag where nobody can hear you scream, just the way
the Duma likes it.
3. Same as #2, but at the same time contribute administratively, as I
have done with my "less than twice as bad" release criteria proposal.
This takes the most effort, but it gets the most notice.
Can't wait to read that transcript.
