[QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Matthias,

On 24/08/19 09:16, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Yesterday at a dinner with many well known friendly faces, a discussion
> started about the priorization of issues.
> 
> One of the main problems when deciding which issues to tackle is, that a
> developer perspective often differs from the one from the average user
> perspective.
> 
> So we thought it might be a good idea to start giving our users a bigger
> voice in how bugs are prioritized - and how the projects funds are spent
> - by giving the developers more information about the "impact footprint"
> of issue reports.
> 
> *In short: if you particularly hate an issue (or two or three) go to
> this issue on github and just give the first post of it a thumbs up**👍**.*
> 
> The following link will then show the leaderboard of annoying things
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc+label%3ABug
> 
> While there is no guarantee that these bugs really will be solved first
> (there are a couple of other things also to take into account, like a
> well defined solution being at hand) this should give us a much better
> (democratic) idea of the often-cited user expectation.

I find the idea interesting and positive, but I see a couple of problems:
* this may generate frustration among users (why the hell an issue with
tens of "likes" has not been solved already? You crappy developers don't
listen to us!)
* thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest.
I would be more in favour of an honest expression of interest: I put my
money where my mouth is. Can we have a mechanism of donations attached
to a articular ticket?
Cheers.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/