Tim, Calvin,
Please enable the voting feature of bugzilla. :)
Darrell
Tim, Calvin,
Please enable the voting feature of bugzilla. :)
Darrell
It should now be enabled. Each user has 3 votes to use; this way I expect to get a better cross-section of "hot" bugs compared to the stock 1 vote per person setting.
Tim
It should now be enabled. Each user has 3 votes to use; this way I expect to get a better cross-section of "hot" bugs compared to the stock 1 vote per person setting.
Great!
Three votes per bug or three votes total?
Darrell
Total, though you could use all three on one bug if you wanted to. The idea of the voting system is to let each user prioritise those bug reports which affect him/her, and then build an overall consensus on which bugs really need to be fixed ASAP.
Tim
Total, though you could use all three on one bug if you wanted to. The idea of the voting system is to let each user prioritise those bug reports which affect him/her, and then build an overall consensus on which bugs really need to be fixed ASAP.
There are a few hundred open reports. If 10 people vote then that is only 30 votes, which is less than a tenth of the open items. If 50 people vote then that is 150 votes, still less than half the open items. Something like 10 votes total per person seems appropriate, or perhaps 3 votes per specified period, such as weekly.
Darrell
Total, though you could use all three on one bug if you wanted to. The idea of the voting system is to let each user prioritise those bug reports which affect him/her, and then build an overall consensus on which bugs really need to be fixed ASAP.
There are a few hundred open reports. If 10 people vote then that is only 30 votes, which is less than a tenth of the open items. If 50 people vote then that is 150 votes, still less than half the open items. Something like 10 votes total per person seems appropriate, or perhaps 3 votes per specified period, such as weekly.
Darrell
Wine, which is a much larger project in terms of bug reports than TDE, gives users three votes as well. As the voting system is part of triage, the numbers you posted above would seem to make sense.
I would be open to increasing the number of votes to 5 per person however.
Tim
There are a few hundred open reports. If 10 people vote then that is only 30 votes, which is less than a tenth of the open items. If 50 people vote then that is 150 votes, still less than half the open items. Something like 10 votes total per person seems appropriate, or perhaps 3 votes per specified period, such as weekly.
Wine, which is a much larger project in terms of bug reports than TDE, gives users three votes as well. As the voting system is part of triage, the numbers you posted above would seem to make sense.
I would be open to increasing the number of votes to 5 per person however.
What is the size of our user base? More specifically what is the size of the active community?
If there are only a few active community members then a low number of votes will not help because the number of open items is greater than the number of active participants.
I don't know.
Bump to five, I guess. We need a way to inform bugzilla account members that they only receive five votes total --- forever.
My goal is to use voting as a bubble method to expose certain bug reports. A challenge I see with any limit is as time moves on and bugs are resolved, users are not able to vote for new bugs reports. Does changing the bug report status to resolved remove the votes and allow people to use that newly freed vote for another bug report? Is this process dynamic?
Darrell
Bump to five, I guess.
Bumped.
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Does changing the bug report status to resolved remove the votes and allow people to use that newly freed vote for another bug report? Is this process dynamic?
As far as I know, yes. Worst case the user would need to un-vote for the resolved report to free up his/her vote for a new bug.
Tim
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