Re: new bug viewing/editing form
Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote:
> Jim Winstead wrote:
>> as threatened after i implemented bug voting, i've redesign the bug
>
> Congratulations! Voting is an excellent idea that will help developers
> to sort out the priorities of what bugs should be fixed first. Just a
> couple of comments:
the voting has been there for a week or so, actually. it is just hard to
notice on the current page because wide comments cause it to get pushed
way off to the right.
> - Voting does not work on Opera 5.05 for Linux. When you submit the
> vote, it fails with the message "missing parameter score".
it's a bug in opera. http://bugs.php.net/~jimw/bugs/opera-broken.php
but because of the order of the fields on the new page, this bug doesn't
get triggered there.
> - 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.
i really, really do not want to force people to register and deal with
all that. if abuse of the voting system becomes a problem, we'll figure
out a way to deal with it at that time. (the voting does track the ip of
submissions, so that is one easy filter that can be applied.)
i have my doubts that the voting will really prove all that useful in
cajoling developers to work on specific bugs. i suspect it will be more
useful in getting users to notice bugs that have already been reported.
(and it is a safety valve for preventing 'me too!' comments now that
anyone will be able to add a comment to a bug.)
jim
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