Re: Enable voting on Bugzilla?

[Ryan McDougall <ryan mcdougall telusplanet net>]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 21:11 +0100, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 06:19:45PM +0000, Chris Howells escribió:
> 
> >Votes are used as a useful indicator for developers to judge what 
> >bugs/features are most annoying/wanted, and to prioritise their time towards 
> >those if they _want_.
> 
> 	What about the voting universe? Who is voting? Hackers? Advanced
> users? People reading /.? Home users?
> 
> 	If the population voting is not homogenous with the real user
> base results are not the real wishes of that user base, and they are
> not accurate.
> 
> Salu2
> 

The "universe" (ah set theory in a bugzilla discussion :)) of users are
those who have taken the time to register themselves with a valid email
on the bugzilla system, and thus generally represent the core of bug
reporting users. You'd know this if you stopped by the KDE bugzilla, or
read the link in the original post.

As someone familiar with mathematics, you should know that accuracy is a
relative measure. Political polls use very strict statistics to arrive
at very high accuracies given they only asked 0.01 percent of the voting
population.

Cheers,
Ryan