On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/06/2016 06:30 AM, Simon King wrote:
>>
>> It seems useless to me. Thus, counter-question: Any substantial benefit
>> with this?
>>
>
> Yeah, I've worked on probably a hundred open source projects that have
> this feature in one way or another. The votes are always completely
> ignored, and users who don't know that waste their time flicking a
> switch that isn't connected to anything.
>
> Is there a single example where voting on bugs has been used effectively?

For SageMathCloud we prioritize which bugs we fix **very much** by how
frequently users report them, which is a sort of voting.    However,
SMC is also a business, not just a for-fun open source side project,
so we have to try very hard to listen to and serve our users.

William


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