On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
This message is an open invitation to others, to come and cast votes for some of my Bug Reports. As you know, under the new voting system, the more votes a bug report has, the quicker it will be fixed.
Not necessarily, Igor. It just means there's more interest from us users
in having it fixed. There are other factors that the RunRev team will
use to determine what gets fixed first - severity and platform are two
major item (IMHO) that can help determine what gets fixed when, and
those have nothing to do with the number of votes.
Very true. Nevertheless, if the majority of the bugs fall into the same level of 'severity', and there are only a limited number of developers available to handle them (just in theory), then the votes will be, indeed, critical in determining which ones will be looked at first - and how many resources are put into overcoming a specific bug or problem area.
There are, at this stage - and in my limited experience - very *few* bugs which are CRASHING, but *many* which are 'normal' show-stoppers in the particular areas of the program that we have to deal with consistently (such as Unicode, or Graphics). Therefore, the votes are critical in this scenario, in directing the Rev team as to whether they should focus their attention on these areas, as opposed to, say, for instance, Database and Networking issues.
Votes just help provide a rudder for RunRev when evaluating bugs of similar "weight" to help get those that are more important to us done earlier if possible.
So, as you can see, the voting will likely influence, indeed, the speed in which certain bugs are fixed .
We might all be looking at this from the programming perspective, but there is also a BUSINESS perspective to consider. The voting system will help show the Rev folks which areas in the IDE have the most sought-after features, the most widely used ones, the most needed - and again, this will help them determine how many resources to allocated to each area. If everyone places votes for bugs related to Database issues, and only a handfull of people vote for the resolution of Unicode bugs, this IS telling them where to concentrate their efforts, and which bugs to solve QUICKLY - no matter how SEVERE the Unicode bugs might be...
Thanks for you point of view, though! - but don't forget to go and VOTE!!!!
Many thanks,
-- Igor de Oliveira Couto ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------
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