Re: Enable voting on Bugzilla?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 08:49 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:38, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 00:56 +0100, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > Ryan,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 06:44, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > > > I don't want to get into it too much, because I sense minds are
> > > > basically made up, and I see already the big brush off coming my way;
> > > > but I just don't see how voting is harmful.
> > > 
> > > Maintainers receive a notification of every change to a bug report. That
> > > means we get an email for every single vote.
> > > 
> > > Please, no, I get enough spam as is.
> > > 
> > > Ronald
> > 
> > I see; bu that shouldn't be the case at all. On bugs.kde.org there are
> > bugs with 1300+ votes. I wonder how they get any work done with that
> > many votes?
> 
> they don't. which is probably why there are 1300+ votes :-)
> 
> the developers are still trying to catch up on mail :p

When we get the upgrade done, this is a moot point- developers can
choose not to recieve mail for votes.

The damage is in giving people the impression votes matter. If the
policy is 'bugs get fixed through merit-based prioritization or patches'
and then 1300 people vote for a bug, guess what... those 1300 people
start complaining that their votes are being ignored. For which I
wouldn't blame them- either votes should matter, or they shouldn't be
collected at all.

Luis