Re: Re: RE: 4.0.5: Merge Request

"Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0104242336170.955-100000@rasmus.php.net... > > OK, my opinion would be to put a copy of the currently known bugs with the RC > > source. To give people a local (ie offline) list to look at. Then, why not > > use a ranking scheme, people rate how much they feel a specific bug needs > > fixing before the new version.. ie > > Having people vote or rate stuff isn't likely to be useful. The signal to > noise ratio of public votes like that is bad. For example, if Chuck says > there is a serious bug in the IMAP library (like he did) then I don't care > if 500 people rate that issue as insignificant. I'd trust his opinion. I agree. Asking sevirity of a bug to people does not mean much, unless it is possible to detect people are using the functionality actually (and seriously). It easy to say "it's not siginificant" if they are not using it. Instead of asking to rate a bug, counting number of users affected by the bug is much more useful and fair. It's easy to have this kind of feature in bug db also. Create user id that is verified by e-mail address (Or vote with e-mail verification) and prevent same person voting for a bug multiple times. A user might have several e-mail addresses, but I guess most users will not create hundreds of free e-mail services' addresses to get an attention for their problem. -- Yasuo Ohgaki