Comment 15 for bug 149775

Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 09.48 +0000, Sitsofe Wheeler ha scritto:
> People will think that so long as a bug is voted on enough
> its priority will rise until it must be fixed which need not be the
> case
> (popular bugs can remain open for a long time). This just creates
> angst [...]

Also seeing that a bug has been marked low priority by a too quick
analysis, and this bug blocks the everyday workflow of a lot of people,
and that is taking users away from your favourite distribution that you
took ages to convince them to test (and see bug #1) creates angst :) Not
that I have a solution. There are even worse things, such as
functionality being removed without discussion because "nobody needs
that" and then a bug opened to request the feature back being pushed
down the queue.. and many other cases where it usually is impossible to
draw developers attention to a case - "if it's been already triaged I
don't need to look at it...". Voting would be needed for these cases,
that should not exist at all in principle but are there in front of us.

Vincenzo