On 6/9/2015 6:00 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:
On 6/9/15 2:24 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
I vote for bugs as a polite (sneaky?) way to watch a bug's bugmail
without spamming all the other CCs by adding myself to the bug's "real"
CC list.
I think if Bugzilla, with its long and complex history, ever has a hope
of being untangled into something better, we can't keep every feature
because of all the possible ways it might be used. :)
Here, I'd suggest that the default should be to _not_ send emails for CC
changes, unless a user opts into it (and maybe even not even for that,
it's just spammy for anyone managing lots of bugs. But baby steps...).
Net improvement, no matter what happens with voting.
I'd agree that voting could be removed. Most people know that it was
added as a way to counter "+1!" type comments.
I've never heard such a thing. However, if it does that, then it does
have a purpose - one that I'd just as soon keep until an alternative is
offered that doesn't require monitoring and work. (which tagging,
mentioned below, does require)
But I'd counter that (1)
it's unclear that it's very effective in that role and (2) I've rarely
actually seen people telling people to use voting.
(1) may be true only for projects that don't use it. (2) should held
against the feature because ___?
We have better tools now with the ability to tag and hide comments
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/comment_tagging) which I _do_ see used
frequently, as well as the ability to entirely disable commenting on
bugs in extenuating circumstances. I'd like to see those further improved.
We can all agree we'd rather not see unhelpful comments nor have to deal
with them. Personally I'd rather not have to tag unuseful comments.
That said, there are much bigger issues with Bugzilla's UI, and removing
voting is probably the smallest possible improvement. But it's probably
easy to just disable it for a while, and see what happens?
I never have seen the voting UI as being the least bit distracting. So
I'd completely agree, other things in the UI are FAR more deserving of
attention and discussion.
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