On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:11:47 -0800 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Belopolsky > <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote: > > -1 on the "star system" for the tracker > > The tracker on Google Code uses stars. We use this tracker to track > external App Engine issues. It works very well to measure how > widespread a particular issue or need is (even if we don't always fix > the highest-star issues first -- the top issues are "unfixable" like > PHP support :-). > > Maybe it works because in that tracker, a star means you get emailed > when the issue is updated; this makes people think twice before > frivolously adding a star. This is not quite the same as the "nosy" > list: adding a star is less work in the UI, you don't have to think up > something meaningful to say, and no email is generated merely because > someone adds or removes a star. I'd also mention that many bugzilla installs have a "voting" facility where people can vote for a limited number of issues of their choice (I think the number of votes also depends on the user's number of contributions, although I'm not sure). Regards Antoine.
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