bugzilla voting

[Per Abrahamsen]

Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> writes:

> Such complainst arise often in the Java world all the time; people
> vote for bugs, and then Sun often ignore the votes in selecting what
> to fix or add. Many critical bugs (not feature requests) have high
> vote counts but lack action from Sun.

I should have specified "free software projects".  The expectations
are different for unfree software, where lobbying often is the only
way to affect the development.

> I would like to see a voting system, so long as there are reasonable
> assurances that the vote has some value.

That sentiment would be an argument against enabling voting.  I
certainly would not want to give assurances any stronger than that I
just *might* take votes into account occasionally.