On 12/9/2010 7:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/9/10 1:02 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 9 December 2010 01:16, Andrei Alexandrescu<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I don't really understand the stiff opposition to this. This is not the time
>>> and the place to criticize the past and present of our process, but instead
>>> to take steps to improve it. Part of improving the process, now that fixing
>>> bugs is a major focus, is to figure out a good ranking function for bugs.
>>> And I believe that increasing the number of votes per user would contribute
>>> to that. Could we please push this through? Let's make it happen.
>>
>>
>> Let me explain the stiff opposition.
>>
>> This change DESTROYS THE EXISTING STATISTICS.
>> When you make a radical change like this, you have to wait for at a
>> least a year or so before the statistics are meaningful again.
>> It took a couple of years to get them to the level they are at now.
>> Seriously.
>> As one of the very few people who actually *uses* the vote statistics,
>> to determine which bugs to fix, I'm quite annoyed about this.
>
> OK. Since I don't feel strongly about this and you do, I withdraw my
> suggestion.
> Brad, could you please change the parameters back?
>
Changed back. There were a few people that had their votes adjusted due to
lowering the limits:
[email protected]
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I have no idea how bugzilla mangled your votes, so each of you should go look
and fix up as desired.
Later,
Brad
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