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

On 11/4/10 9:22 PM, Austin English wrote:

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:02 AM, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51@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...

James McKenzie