> It's a reasonable axiom that sometimes it's not best for developers not to first fix the bug that affects the most users.
(Inadvertent double negative.)
> I would also add that, as a developer using Launchpad, I *want* to see the number of affected users by a bug. So choosing what's best for me is pure non-sense. If I don't want to care about the affected users, I will just choose to ignore this.
Maybe Launchpad could start by just publishing the number, and see if developers complain?
> It's a reasonable axiom that sometimes it's not best for developers not to first fix the bug that affects the most users.
(Inadvertent double negative.)
> I would also add that, as a developer using Launchpad, I *want* to see the number of affected users by a bug. So choosing what's best for me is pure non-sense. If I don't want to care about the affected users, I will just choose to ignore this.
Maybe Launchpad could start by just publishing the number, and see if developers complain?