Re: Managing the community information stream

Jim,

> I am sympathetic to the issues you and Andrew are describing (I
> understand Bruce's stream analogy, but I think Andrew is right that
> from the user's point of view, it's not usable).  But I am not
> convinced that users voting on desired features will get us the
> users' desired features.  The features we get are mostly the features
> that have attracted developers.  The method by which that attraction
> happens is interesting, but I don't think it's democratic.

Further, our community has always operated by consensus and public 
mailing list poll when applicable, and not by "majority rules" vote or 
anything similar.  The only advantage I can see to allowing "voting" on 
TODOs would be to quickly answer the question "does anyone t all care 
about this", but I personally am not convinced that offering 
Bugzilla-style voting would help that at all.  On other projects, my 
experience is that people don't use the BZ voting, even projects which 
otherwise use BZ extensively.

--Josh Berkus