[Interest] Bounties?

[Koehne Kai]

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> On Behalf Of Andre Somers
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 10:01 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Interest] Bounties?
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> Koehne Kai schreef op 13-3-2015 om 09:40:
> > That said, I agree that the current 'voting' system in JIRA is of
> > somewhat limited use. Quite naturally, annoyances that a lot of people
> > hit (and that are easy to search for) are up-voted, while other, more
> > serious issues that however affect only a limited number of people
> > might not get this attention. If you've anything meaningful to add to
> > a ticket it's IMO better to comment on it.
>
> It's not that I disagree, but could you explain why you think that that
> annoyances that a lot of people hit are less important than "issues that affect
> only a limited number of people"?

_serious_ issues that affect only a limited number of people :)

Don't get me wrong: Surely the bugs that get a lot of votes are important, but I claim that this metric is still somewhat bogus.

Just have a look at the most-voted-for open bug reports in Qt and Qt Creator:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-640
"Improve support for multiple monitors"

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-3897
"Please make QZip as a permanent class inside Qt"

I don't doubt that they're valid & important things to look at, but would you have expected that these are the top issues to be fixed? Surely Qt Creator can be used in a multi-monitor setup right now (I'm doing this). And while it would be nice to have public API to generate zip files in Qt itself, a quick web search shows that there are alternatives.

Regards

Kai