Community voting

[Bill Nottingham]

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) said: 
> On 09/24/2013 01:02 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >I don't mean to say that the voting app can't or shouldn't be used for
> >anything else; it's fine to use it for other specific things where it makes
> >sense, but we shouldn't start straw-polling on one-off arbitrary issues.
> 
> I hardly call settling the long outstanding community issue of
> reporters working directly upstream ( which many upstream wants ) or
> strictly downstream ( which reporters wants ) is arbitrary issue...
> 
> So we have both community voice up and vote once the feedback has
> been gathered and summarized and the result from that we will be
> working towards bettering in the next 5 to 10 years

Pitting the 'user/reporters' against the 'upstreams' in a vote? That's a
horrible idea.

It should be simple enough to determine, at a project leadership level:
- What do we have bugzilla for? As a service for developers? As a service
  for problem reporting for users? What is the relative priority of these?
- Do we prefer to optimize for the ease of use and convenience of our users,
  or our developers?
- Do our competitors offer consolidated bug tracking, and then interface
  with upstreams? Is it worth differing from them?
etc.

Weigh the answers to those questions at a project leadership level and make
a decision. There's no need for it to come down to a binary vote, much like
the switch from cvs to git wasn't voted on, and many other similar
decisions.

Bill