> * thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest.
I disagree. Yes a thumb-up is a "cheap", but the only people who find
the issue in the first place to thumb it are those it affects. For this
sort of thing Cheap is a virtue not a problem (I very much doubt there
are any troll-farms out there targeting bug lists (yet...)).
I think this is a great way of communicating how much certain issues
affect people and then the limited resources can be directed appropriately.
On 2019-08-24 08:21, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Hi Matthias,
On 24/08/19 09:16, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
Yesterday at a dinner with many well known friendly faces, a discussion
started about the priorization of issues.
One of the main problems when deciding which issues to tackle is, that a
developer perspective often differs from the one from the average user
perspective.
So we thought it might be a good idea to start giving our users a bigger
voice in how bugs are prioritized - and how the projects funds are spent
- by giving the developers more information about the "impact footprint"
of issue reports.
*In short: if you particularly hate an issue (or two or three) go to
this issue on github and just give the first post of it a thumbs up**👍**.*
The following link will then show the leaderboard of annoying things
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc+label%3ABug
While there is no guarantee that these bugs really will be solved first
(there are a couple of other things also to take into account, like a
well defined solution being at hand) this should give us a much better
(democratic) idea of the often-cited user expectation.
I find the idea interesting and positive, but I see a couple of problems:
* this may generate frustration among users (why the hell an issue with
tens of "likes" has not been solved already? You crappy developers don't
listen to us!)
* thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest.
I would be more in favour of an honest expression of interest: I put my
money where my mouth is. Can we have a mechanism of donations attached
to a articular ticket?
Cheers.
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