GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 104739
GNOME Bugzilla should have a voting
Last modified: 2005-12-21 09:09:55 UTC
GNOME Bugzilla should have a voting. This feature would inform developers what users want most and what bother them most. Voting system exists in the majority of really good products like OpenOffice, Mozilla or AbiWord
I also would like to see voting system in bugzilla.gnome.org I vote for this bug ;)
I think the best way of 'voting' for a bug is by helping us diagnose it. Explore the app and reproduce the crash, submit crash reports for the bug... things like this will draw more attention to the report you want to vote for. At the very least you can submit the bug report again, and it will have another duplicate, which eventually will get it moved up the list of most frequently reported bugs.
*** Bug 108390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
-> Voting for real bugs is useless. If they happen, people file them, we know they exist, we know they need to be fixed. -> Voting for enhancements is useless. Enhancements in GNOME need someone to code them; no code, no vote. (You could vote, but the votes would be ignored.) -> Voting for a general direction / meta-enhancement is useless. That's not part of bugzilla, it's for mailing lists and maintainer decisions. If you want to influence it, get some respect in the community. That's the rationale; I'm closing this bug.
Oh, and don't don't don't don't please DON'T submit a bug multiple times to get duplicates marked. What that will actually do is overload the bug squad, spam bugzilla, and slow everything down _lots_.
Andrew, do you think AbiWord, OpenOffice, Mozilla and other good products developers are dumb ? Gnome has many usability problems, because there are no voting posibillity. Developers can't hear users oppinion if there are no voting posibility. Voting helps to hear opinion of simple users (most users doesn't write in mailing lists, because they are lazy, but they vote, when there are easy to use posibility to vote for some bug or enhancement) I'm reopening this bug, please talk with other people before closing this bug as WONTFIX
I can say with 100% certainty that voting will not be enabled before we upgrade to a newer bugzilla.
I can say with certainty it won't be fixed while I'm bugmaster. Ask the mozilla people what they think of voting- they think it was a mistake. There are other, older requests for voting in this bugzilla where I've discussed the issue at some length; please search for them and add comments there if you disagree.