On 29 Apr 2008, at 17:10, Stephen Hahn wrote: > If you want to get a group started to write it, I'm sure we can > figure > out how to host it. I would like to understand how to use Bugzilla's > voting better, which I think is related...
> (I do think that such a list needs to be connected to a bug database, > so that ideas progress to problem statements and proposed solutions. Perhaps, but I for one wouldn't want to see the actual voting to happen in the bug database. Luis Villa, erstwhile GNOME bugmeister, summed it up quite nicely for me when the GNOME community last discussed whether to turn voting back on for its bugzilla: "Basically voting in bugzillas is nothing but a way for people to whine about their favorite bugs in blogs, or on /., or on whatever other forum, and get people to stuff the 'voting box.' Votes end up having no bearing on actual bug validity, importance, or severity. If you need your bug marked up, argue persuasively in the bug that the bug has a serious user impact, or provide a patch." One proposed solution was to make the vote count visible only to the assigned triagers/engineers, which I think bugzilla supports... but apart from that, on any sizeable OSS project, it's only a small percentage of users who ever go anywhere near the bug database, so the voting sample is inevitably skewed towards the sort of users who do. The comparative simplicity of Ubuntu's brainstorming pages may have the potential to redress that balance somewhat, but until somebody makes the effort to find out, it's hard to know for sure. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
