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

[Yaron Shahrabani]

 On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:27 AM, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On 11/4/10 9:22 PM, Austin English wrote:
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>> 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.
>
I think Launchpad has the exact same issues but somehow in Ubuntu the voting
is much more useful than in Bugzilla...

One of the best ways to trace a common mistake in Ubuntu right after the
release is to look at the votes, these issues usually get a lot og attention
and they automatically get a higher priority...

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> James McKenzie
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