Last modified: 2013-06-18 03:46:22 UTC
If I want to track a bug, I can just vote for it. This is pretty common practice, as I understand it. But voting seems to be disabled in the VisualEditor product. Can we have it please?
Voting is not for tracking a bug, voting is to express that you'd like to see a bug fixed. The CC field is for tracking a bug. It's correct that some products have it enabled, others have not. In general (not a topic for this bug report), if voting is NOT used as an input channel for planning by developers (and hence part of the process to define priorities), it should be disabled. I cannot make that decision for another team, hence CC'ing James. My personal preference currently is to completely disable voting for above reasons (not used by management as one input channel to set priorities).
(In reply to comment #1) > Voting is not for tracking a bug, voting is to express that you'd like to > see a > bug fixed. The CC field is for tracking a bug. See some of the comments in bug 25321 and bug 28385...
The voting system is worse than valueless; it has absolutely impact on prioritisation (we use judgement and actually talking to the community for that), which is bad enough, but it gives users the entirely-false expectation that we even notice, let alone act upon, their "votes". The "voting" system should be removed from Wikimedia's Bugzilla instance for all products, but at the very least, I think it's dangerously disrespectful to our users - who can't be expected to know this works in practice - to add its rot to any more places. Marking as WONTFIX.
