https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167
--- Comment #31 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2011-12-31 11:24:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #30) > That means our voice can be dumped into rubbish bin? Then what's the point of > having the "vote"? Its been publicly stated in several places for quite a long time that votes are not taken in to consideration when deciding where development effort is put (Popular opinion is taken into consideration somewhat, but not in the form of "votes", generally). The intention behind the voting module is to allow people to have favourites lists of bugs for easy tracking. Many considerations go into prioritizing bugs (or from what I understand, I myself generally don't go around prioritizing bugs). How many people are affected, how severely they are affected, how much people want the new behaviour, how difficult the bug is to fix (especially, relative to how many problems the bug is causing), etc. In any case, its perfectly possible to search the bugzilla db by number of votes (Even though we generally don't look at votes, some people do look at what is voted high when looking for things to fix). Artificially inflating the priority would just make the field useless, it won't make the bug any more "important". (About 50% of bugs are considered super-important to someone somewhere in the universe, if everyone set there favourite bug to 'highest', it would just make the priority field meaningless). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
