On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Brad Bowman <brad@atendesigngroup.com> wrote:
Can you guys give me the run down on how this is expected to help with newer contributors getting their work recognized? I see adding issue voting as just perpetuating the system we have now, where the most known/active contributors get their patches looked at by more people than new contributors. I see this as just pushing that problem one step further up the line, where now they'll get their issues 'dugg' more.
I think the primary benefit would be that people who weren't in a position to offer technical commentary but are affected by the issue could vote for it to help raise its profile--especially for the issues that don't affect a majority of users. And they'd be able to do so in a way that doesn't clutter up a queue with +1 or me too comments.
I see this also as a potential distraction for patches that are important, but not exciting. I don't think things like documentation and coding standards would not fare too well in a voting contest, but that doesn't diminish their importance.
Those two are probably bad examples because they're the easiest type of patches to review and commit. But in general I don't see it being a huge problem because I'm guessing that you'll be able to rank the results of a search. andrew