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Re: bugzilla voting
- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie at shareable dot org>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- Cc: Matt Hargett <matt at use dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 01:32:04 +0100
- Subject: Re: bugzilla voting
- References: <406C8215.6010003@use.net> <20040401143326.A4619@synopsys.com>
Joe Buck wrote:
> But if you think that Bugzilla voting is going to speed up bug fixes to
> an embedded target, I'm afraid that you would be disappointed. Even if
> voting did affect the priority assigned to bugs, people interested on more
> widely used platforms would outvote you.
People working on an embedded target could look at the votes
constrained to bugs which affect only that target.
While that doesn't automatically cause popular bugs to be fixed, it
does gives developers a little more information. Sometimes that
information can even be used to justify financing work, e.g. from a cpu
manufacturer who has interest in the quality of their port.
-- Jamie