Voting for bugs (Was: Re: [Bug 20969])

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 5 21:27:35 CDT 2010


On 11/4/10 9:22 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:02 AM, James McKenzie
> <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>> Yes, there are bugs with thousands of votes, but that just
>> shows the scope of effect of a particular bug.
> I'm not sure where you got that idea:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&votes=100&order=votes%2Cbug_id
>
Looked at the list and one of the bugs has over 150 votes and it was 
CLOSED DUPLICATE and the votes were not moved to the original bug.  This 
is another shortcoming of using bug voting that exists or existed in 
Bugzilla.

James McKenzie




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