Hi, I'm wondering what bug vote is for. Statistics ? Is a bug more about to be resolved if it's voted ? I know there are ~20616 bugs and so it's impossible to try to fix them all. So I guess the more a bug is voted the more he's read. Is it true ? I posted a bug wich is now waiting for a reply. Should I vote for it each day ? Thanks for answering me.
Alex wrote:> Hi, > > I'm wondering what bug vote is for. > Statistics ? > > Is a bug more about to be resolved if it's voted ? > > I know there are ~20616 bugs and so it's impossible to try to fix them all. > So I guess the more a bug is voted the more he's read. > > Is it true ? > > I posted a bug wich is now waiting for a reply. > Should I vote for it each day ? > > Thanks for answering me.Once two people vote for the bug, it is "confirmed by popular vote" and the status changes to new. As to whether that makes a difference in getting a bug fixed, not that I've noticed. Unconfirmed bugs can and do get fixed, and there are plenty of confirmed bugs that languish for months or even years. As for voting for your own bug every day, that's not likely to do anything but annoy the developers.
> I take it that bugs that have a LOT of votes usually do get fixed as quickly as possible (unless it involves something unfixable like some of the game security systems out there) (and of course keeping in account fixing one bug could be a lot of work)?A search of bugzilla for bugs with at least 100 votes turns up 6 bugs, the newest of which is over two years old. The oldest was filed in 2002. AFAICT, having a LOT of votes just means the bug has been around long enough to accumulate them.