On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:23 PM, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net>wrote:
Tom Spear <speeddymon(a)gmail.com> wrote: [Message arranged in top to bottom posting order to comply with mailing list rules/guidelines]
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:01 PM, <wine-bugs(a)winehq.org> wrote:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969
--- Comment #19 from Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry(a)codeweavers.com> 2010-11-02 12:01:23 CDT --- (In reply to comment #18)
Those of you with this issue, make sure you vote for this in bugzilla so that it can be confirmed, if you haven't already.
Voting for bugs in Wine bugzilla is useless and does nothing except adding noise.
Can/should voting for bugs be disabled if it is 'useless and does nothing except adding noise'?
Thanks
Tom
Tom:
Voting for bugs does two things, and I don't think Dmitry wants to do the first:
1. It confirms that a bug does exists and possibly on multiple platforms. 2. It advises developers that more than one system/configuration is affected by a bug.
I agree that adding thousands of votes to a long standing bug is 'noise'. Given that we have a limited resource of developers, having users verify bugs and to vote for them to give an idea of how severe a bug is might be helpful.
Just my .02 USD here.
I think that voting for bugs is a great feature, otherwise there would have been many annoying comments like: it happens to me too and what info you can get out of it? Voting helps setting priorities for bugs without nonsense comments. This is my 7 Agorot...
James McKenzie