On 8 Mar 2007, at 17:48, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Dave wrote:
I was more thinking about the others that would waste time
considering whether or not to vote for it, plus the wasted time
for the people at RunRev to look at it in the database and
schedule it in or whatever they do,
I hate to continue this thread,
Why exactly?
but just for clarification, votes have no weight at all in "bugs"
like this one. Any bug report about a crash, or a documentation
error, or anything similar will be fixed without regard to votes at
all. In general, voting only has weight when relatively minor bugs
are being considered (or feature requests) and the team members
want to get an idea of how many people think the issue is
important. Even then, votes are only one of many considerations
that apply when they choose what to work on. Documentation errors
require no votes at all, nor should they. Crashes are always fixed
with top priority.
Then why did people say they would vote for it if I entered it? If
votes don't count as you say, then there is even less reason to enter
it into the database in the first place!
Regarding the team "wasting time" reading Bugzilla: the team uses
the database as a checklist, and it actually saves them a great
deal of time because it provides a consolidated list for them to
consult. They don't have time to monitor the mailing list for
issues. If your issue isn't on the checklist, they won't see it.
That's all there is to it.
Someone on the team looks at the database daily. I understand that
it takes some effort to enter issues into the database, and the
team is very grateful to those who do. If something is important to
you, the one and only way to bring it to their attention is to get
it onto that checklist somehow; you can do that by entering a
report yourself or by writing to either of the email addresses that
have been mentioned here.
Exactly, if it were just "fixed" it wouldn't need to go into the
database and they would have N less entries to look at.
All the Best
Dave
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