Bleah, sorry for the sucky formatting. Should be somewhat improved in the quoted text below.
On 29 Apr 2008, at 21:57, Calum Benson wrote: > 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]
