Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make decisions?

Sat Aug 5 19:13:18 BST 2023

 Looks like my first message didn't make it into the list yet, this was in response to my:
> I find it a useful indication of how common an issue really is and hence how important it is to solve, and am surprised that some would not. How else are users supposed to express that a bug affects them, without creating duplicates and "me too" comments which I as a submitter would think of as spammy?

Re. "I am an adult, I can set my own priorities"; I can see how that rationale applies to contributors who do this for fun, but at least as far as I'm concerned, I want an objective indication of what tasks have priority, and minimum number of peope affected as indicated by votes is one such measure.
    Am Samstag, 5. August 2023 um 20:00:13 MESZ hat Natalie Clarius <natalie_clarius at yahoo.de> Folgendes geschrieben:  

 OTOH, if the reality is that many developers don't and won't consider votes, it may be better to turn the feature off after all to indicate that it has no value and users are expected to duplicate reports if they want their feedback to be considered.
   Am Samstag, 5. August 2023 um 13:00:24 MESZ hat plasma-devel-request at kde.org <plasma-devel-request at kde.org> Folgendes geschrieben:  

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Today's Topics:

  1. Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make
      decisions? (Nate Graham)
  2. Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make
      decisions? (Fusion Future)
  3. Plasma plasma-desktop 5.27.7.1 update (Jonathan Riddell)
  4. Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make
      decisions? (Harald Sitter)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 07:52:36 -0600
From: Nate Graham <nate at kde.org>
To: kde-devel <kde-devel at kde.org>, Plasma <plasma-devel at kde.org>
Subject: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make
    decisions?
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Hello folks!

I often find myself explaining to users that votes on Bugzilla tickets 
are generally meaningless and not used by most developers to help 
prioritize work. After I explain this, they generally express surprise, 
as it's not obvious.

I find myself wondering whether it would make sense to disable the 
voting feature by default to avoid giving our users this false impression.

So if you *do* take user votes into consideration when determining what 
tickets to prioritize, I'd like to hear from you!

Nate

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:57:16 +0800
From: Fusion Future <qydwhotmail at gmail.com>
To: Nate Graham <nate at kde.org>, kde-devel <kde-devel at kde.org>, Plasma
    <plasma-devel at kde.org>
Subject: Re: Do you use votes on Bugzilla tickets to help you make
    decisions?
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I do vote on Bugzilla, but given the limited development resource, I 
find vote less useful than the number of duplicates or CCs.

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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:42:45 +0100
From: Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org>
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Subject: Plasma plasma-desktop 5.27.7.1 update
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plasma-desktop now has plasma-desktop-5.27.7.1 tar available to download
for packaging
sha256sum: 51626674ce4324ac424fded716862da967e6b33a898108b49fa27a7896d1bec2
Git commit: d9f39abdb402a81465dca79c791a229778e97efb

https://kde.org/info/plasma-5.27.7/
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 23:55:26 +0200
From: Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org>
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Never looked at them. Never seen the benefit.

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 3:53 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hello folks!
>
> I often find myself explaining to users that votes on Bugzilla tickets
> are generally meaningless and not used by most developers to help
> prioritize work. After I explain this, they generally express surprise,
> as it's not obvious.
>
> I find myself wondering whether it would make sense to disable the
> voting feature by default to avoid giving our users this false impression.
>
> So if you *do* take user votes into consideration when determining what
> tickets to prioritize, I'd like to hear from you!
>
>
> Nate

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