Re: Re: new bug viewing/editing form

Manuel Lemos said at 22:18 6-1-2002:

- Assuming that the number of votes may influence in the priority that developers will give to fix each bug, it seems easy to mislead developers because somebody that realizes that may submit a bunch of votes just to make it outstand in the pending bug queue. I suggest that you adopt an authentication scheme like bugzilla, that requires submitters to subscribe confirming the subscriptions by e-mail. This way, multiple votes from the same subscriber would only count as one.

If you go down that road, instead of assuming mature users, and kicking out the occasional kid, you'll end up with a lot of maintenance in the the subscriber database, deleting numerous hotmail accounts. Floods can be easily detected, and bugs which outstand tremendously can be investigated. There's also a much easier authentication for votes, which separates humans from bots, described here: http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/12/perl/ Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, IDG.nl Melvyn Sopacua Webmaster <greeting season="newyear"> XML-error: undefined entity "peace" at line 1. </greeting>