* Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-29 21:10]: > > 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.
I can accept that advice pretty easily. I happily retreat to "please link, however minimally, each idea to a bug". > >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. Agree. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
