Hello, Jim Winstead wrote: > > - 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.
What do you mean? I just noticed that it still causes the problem above. > > - 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.) hummm... I was able to vote on the same bug several times in a row and it counted. Are you sure that IP filter is working? Anyway, that is easy to work around, especially because the source of the page is available, and who intends to fool the system will always find a easy way to do it. > 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 I think it will help the QA time to concentrate on bugs that seem more urgent, if the vote system can work reliably. Regards, Manuel Lemos -- 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]
