I disagree with Derek, Nat (nothing personal, I am sure you know that) and Bugzilla who prefer the limited vote number system. It introduces the need for an arbitrary value (how many votes per person is fair?) and discussions that would stem from it. <div>
<br></div><div>Simple accumulative voting on issues (+1 system, one per user per issue) is</div><div>a) simpler and therefore more elegant, and even more importantly:</div><div>b) people use it intuitively already - they add those cluttering "Subscribing" messages because they have no other way of doing this. If limited vote was applied, bumping the issue by saying "Subscribing" would continue whenever one runs out of votes (even if such messages would not be counted as votes).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, I think that old issues, even if they rise up due to accumulated votes (or age) can still be easily dismissed if necessary - by saying they need to be re-done against another version, etc, so I don't think that's a problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Important - if age is included somehow as discussed above, it should be age since last comment in that thread. Means if somebody reacts in some way the added weight based on time is re-set to zero, which is fair because the patch contributors need to react on it. Otherwise even useless patches / issues would keep rising in the queue, despite all critique.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Keep up the good ideas flowing, let's make the best system possible.<br><br>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Derek Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drupal@dwwright.net">drupal@dwwright.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Jakob Petsovits wrote:<br>
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Bugzilla (at least in the version used on <a href="http://bugs.kde.org" target="_blank">bugs.kde.org</a>) grants each user a<br>
limited amount of votes for each project which the user can then assign as<br>
desired. If the user doesn't have any votes left, she needs to take them back<br>
from unimportant issues and reassign these votes to the more pressing ones.<br>
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That's exactly how project_issue_voting.module already works.<br>
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Age modifiers seem like needless complication, and something that's bound to make whatever performance concerns we have about running this on d.o even worse. Let's not over-complicate this problem to the point of making it infeasible to deploy...<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Derek (dww)<br>
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