Re: Suggestion to Borland : Public betas!

From: Anders Isaksson (anders.isaksson_at_REMOVEcej.se)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:52:35 +0100

On 29 Nov 2004 09:14:57 -0700, "Nick Hodges [TeamB]"
<nickhodges@gmail.com> wrote:

>As I've pointed out before, most of the votes in QC appear to go to
>enhancement requests.

That's a natural. Many people have pointed out that votes *does not
count* until a report is 'Open'. As the notification system is not
active yet (or have I missed that?), it's not easy to remember to go
back and vote when the reports finally (hopefully) gets opened.

>Of course, if the system distinguished between feature requests and
>bugs, it would be easier to tell what bugs are important to people.

Certainly. But I find it easy enough already: Bugs are bugs, and feature
requests are feature requests. There is no reason to compare apples to
oranges, there is no reason to compare the vote count on a feature
request to the vote count on a bug report. Vote count should never be
taken as an *absolute* value, but a *relative* one.

Bug reports, almost by definition, are only interesting to the poeple
affected by the bug, feature requests can be apprehended by anyone.

Bug reports are technical, feature requests are religious.

I would be *very* astonished if you ever got the same number of votes on
a bug as on the popular feature requests. 

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