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Re: about voting for bugs



On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:24:02AM +0100, Paul Brossier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With all these great news about the BTS these days, it would be nice to
> think about adding a voting feature: a way to count the number of users
> that are annoyed by each bug. It could be either a simple way to submit
> a follow-up to say 'hey, i faced this one too', either just a button on
> bugreport.cgi, or something else.

In principle, I like this idea. However

> Provided the system gets used
^^^
That's the key point: It must be used and embraced by the people working
on the bugs. See <http://jon.dowland.name/log/2005/05/27#voting>, where
I discover that attempts to leverage voting etc. on the mozilla bts
amount to nothing.

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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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