On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mark Côté <mc...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > > > > There are a few of us still round from the origin of many of these > bugzilla > > features > > and for this one I think it was mostly just intended as a mechanism to > > make sure we > > had some ways to get a good collection of eyeballs on a particular issue > > where lots > > of people shared the same experience or ideas, and to make sure at least > > some kind of response was in place that explained the reason for doing, > > or not doing, some course of action. > > > > Based on that you might come away with a different opinion that voting > > was working and serving a valuable service in its most simple form. > > > > Its it just the case that we need to make it more clear that a vote means > > "vote for this bug to get more people looking at and discussing this > bug"? > > The original intention for voting doesn't seem to be widely understood > or respected, as I believe you are saying. So we either need to somehow > communicate this intention more widely, or abandon it. Unless someone > is going to step up for the former, I would go with the latter. > > Seems like a pretty simple change to just add text around the vote link/button change: (vote <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting/user.html&bug_id=984012#vote_984012> ) to (vote to help raise visablity <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=voting/user.html&bug_id=984012#vote_984012> ) > Furthermore, since bugs with lots of votes also have lots of CCs (see an > earlier post of mine), if we want to just acknowledge that a bug is > popular, we can just use CC counts above a certain threshold. > Admittedly there's no way to search for that, but it wouldn't be hard to > add. > > yeah, it seem reasonable that there might be correlation between votes and cc lists at some steady state of the bug. one interesting question is which one is the leading indicator and which one is the lagging indicator. 1) do people add to the cc list as the result of finding bugs with rising vote counts? or 2) is the reverse happening that we have bugs with with big cc lists in which people then start voting on. or 3) is the growth in both uniform for bugs with large vote counts? If its 1 (or maybe 3) then the system is working pretty much as originally designed. If its the later then votes might be just piling on and we can leverage other indicators to give us the same info. does the action of a vote currently add one to the cc list by default? the ability to follow components and people also came after voting and might also lead to a disconnect between how many people are on the cc list of a random bug that comes in and starts to get voted up. that could be valuable for new features that have just been added that might get votes, but the component does not yet have a big component following. -chofmann _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
