GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 390454
Voting on features
Last modified: 2015-02-11 02:45:31 UTC
Sometimes I'd like to say 'This feature is important for me as well'. However: - Comments, in my opinion, should be for developers solving the problem (not before solve) - Duplicates are not welcome.
The best way to get some feature implemented: 1. Write a patch 2. Get someone else to write a patch 50. CC yourself (that already shows provides insight in how much interest there is) I will only enable voting if developers will actually *only* use the number of votes when making decisions which feature to implement first. However, due to limited time and developers having other priorities just than votes, I do not see this happening. Without developers actually using only votes to prioritize features, votes will give an empty promise to the people voting. Meaning.. that voting makes a difference (it does not). The result (often seen on Mozilla's Bugzilla) is people complaining that some feature is not implemented while it has >XX votes and was filed X years ago. Voting would have the same result as cc'ing. So I'm wontfixing this.
Ok. Thanks I'll CC
*** Bug 568627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 629161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) > Without developers actually using only votes to prioritize features, votes will > give an empty promise to the people voting. Meaning.. that voting makes a > difference (it does not). The result (often seen on Mozilla's Bugzilla) is > people complaining that some feature is not implemented while it has >XX votes > and was filed X years ago. Wrong. I have never seen people thinking that a bug with a high number of votes *must* automatically mean it has high priority. That's a wrong assumption from your part. However, a committed developer should take this into consideration while deciding the priority a bug must have, and (s)he so decides, explain clearly why a bug with a high number of votes gets low priority. Or (s)he can just ignore the votes if (s)he so desires. It's completely up to the developer, and you can see from bug #629161. There's already some GNOME developers that would use this feature. > Voting would have the same result as cc'ing. So I'm wontfixing this. No, it won't.