Yaron Shahrabani sh.yaron@gmail.com wrote:
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?
Adding such a comment is pefectly acceptable.
Confirming a bug and voting for it are two different things. Once a bug is confirmed its state changes from UNCONFORMED to NEW, and usually once sombody else bisides the reporter confirms a bug, a person with appropriate bugzilla rights sets bug state to NEW. But asking people to vote for a bug is a waste of effort, since that doesn't change anything. There are bugs in Wine bugzilla with huge amounts of votes on them, but that doesn't suddenly make a bug more important to developers for various reasons.
Voting helps setting priorities for bugs without nonsense comments.
That's the bug severity is for.