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Re: bugzilla voting
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: Per Abrahamsen <abraham at dina dot kvl dot dk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:15:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: bugzilla voting
- Organization: OAR Corporation
- References: <200404021237.i32CbkHA025222@pc960.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw wrote:
3. Zero interest from companies that make money directly from support
or development of GCC.
Or maybe even negative interest (they'd not fix a bug with a large number
of votes because somebody might be more likely to cough up real money for
doing the work...)
I would expect that bugs which impact the configuratinos with the
highest numbers of users would end up getting the most votes. So
a GNU/Linux x86 would likely generate more votes than something for
an embedded platform.
Which leads me to believe that a more accurate prioritization technique
would be to place weight on which platforms, packages, etc were
negatively impacted by the bug. So miscompiling glibc on an x86 would
be "more important" than fixing a miscompilation of any other package
on the pdp11.
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