Manuel Lemos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Winstead wrote: >> as threatened after i implemented bug voting, i've redesign the bug > > Congratulations! Voting is an excellent idea that will help developers > to sort out the priorities of what bugs should be fixed first. Just a > couple of comments:
the voting has been there for a week or so, actually. it is just hard to notice on the current page because wide comments cause it to get pushed way off to the right. > - Voting does not work on Opera 5.05 for Linux. When you submit the > vote, it fails with the message "missing parameter score". it's a bug in opera. http://bugs.php.net/~jimw/bugs/opera-broken.php but because of the order of the fields on the new page, this bug doesn't get triggered there. > - Assuming that the number of votes may influence in the priority that > developers will give to fix each bug, it seems easy to mislead > developers because somebody that realizes that may submit a bunch of > votes just to make it outstand in the pending bug queue. I suggest that > you adopt an authentication scheme like bugzilla, that requires > submitters to subscribe confirming the subscriptions by e-mail. This > way, multiple votes from the same subscriber would only count as one. i really, really do not want to force people to register and deal with all that. if abuse of the voting system becomes a problem, we'll figure out a way to deal with it at that time. (the voting does track the ip of submissions, so that is one easy filter that can be applied.) i have my doubts that the voting will really prove all that useful in cajoling developers to work on specific bugs. i suspect it will be more useful in getting users to notice bugs that have already been reported. (and it is a safety valve for preventing 'me too!' comments now that anyone will be able to add a comment to a bug.) jim -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
