Re: [exim] Bug voting?

--On 3 October 2006 03:58:14 +0800 W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:

> Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>
>> How do you feel about using the voting features of Bugzilla to help
>> decide which features to implement first?
>>
>>
>
> Probably neither accurate nor germane in the case of Exim.
>
> 'D'ruther trust PH's judgement, which, as we have seen, does a very
> balanced job of taking in what we wish for,

A voting mechanism would merely provide additional data toward a better
judgement of what it is that "we" wish for. It needn't be authoritative. At
least it would give people a different way of expressing their wishes than
mailing the list.

> what is safe, reasonable,
> approriate to an MTA, can be cleanly implemented, fits into the structure
> and design well....etc.

Clearly these issues would need to be balanced against the wishes expressed
above.

> Might feel different if there were any serious deficiencies, but this
> Lily has been in gilding mode for quite a while.
>
> Nothing broke enough to need fixing, ordinarily, and no seriously needful
> 'features' that do not at least have a workaround..
>
> Bill



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Ian Eiloart
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