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

[Jonathan Moules]

 >  * thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest.

I disagree. Yes a thumb-up is a "cheap", but the only people who find 
the issue in the first place to thumb it are those it affects. For this 
sort of thing Cheap is a virtue not a problem (I very much doubt there 
are any troll-farms out there targeting bug lists (yet...)).


I think this is a great way of communicating how much certain issues 
affect people and then the limited resources can be directed appropriately.


On 2019-08-24 08:21, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 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.
>