bugzilla voting

[Joel Sherrill]

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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