Re: bugzilla voting

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:32:04AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.

If the GCC developers think turning on voting would be useful to them, I
would be all for it.  Whether users think it's a good idea, I think,
should not be relevant.

If it is turned on, we need to be sure that expectations are set correctly
("Mommy, they fixed Johnny's bug, even though Billy had more votes!
Unfair!  I'm telling RMS!").