{"id":870,"date":"2008-07-22T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2008-07-22T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T23:58:17","slug":"me-too-comments-in-bug-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/22\/me-too-comments-in-bug-systems","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Me too&#8221; comments in bug systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythian.com\/blogs\/1131\/why-mysql-51-is-not-ga-yet-and-how-you-can-help#more-1131\">&#8220;me too&#8221; types of bug replies<\/a>, but before everyone goes to the bug database and starts saying &#8220;me too&#8221;, &#8220;this affects me&#8221;, &#8220;please fix this ASAP&#8221;, &#8220;I won&#8217;t use MySQL 5.1 till this is fixed&#8221;, I wonder if this will cause more harm (i.e. more bug spam for the developer, and all those subscribed to it) than good.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Worklog :: WL#148 &gt;&gt; Foreign keys: Implement Foreign Keys (all storage engines) by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2694366414\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2694366414_10d6d11de8_o.jpg?resize=281%2C198\" alt=\"Worklog :: WL#148 &gt;&gt; Foreign keys: Implement Foreign Keys (all storage engines)\" width=\"281\" height=\"198\" align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>It seems like the public <a href=\"http:\/\/forge.mysql.com\/worklog\/\">Worklog<\/a> interface gets this right &#8211; via <strong>voting<\/strong>. Having a count of those that have the same problems, even displayed via &#8220;stars&#8221;, is a much better interface, and shows urgency a lot better than &#8220;me too&#8221; posts.<\/p>\n<p>Take one of my favourite worklogs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/forge.mysql.com\/worklog\/task.php?id=148\">WL#148<\/a> (to implement engine independent foreign keys). Not only can you tag it, you can also comment on it (like a bug report), you can subscribe to it (watch it) and in the event you felt like a &#8220;me too&#8221;, you just login, and vote!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of bug tracking systems have voting. I remember this being implemented on the OpenOffice.org system (IssueZilla) a few years back, and its definitely proven to be useful. Maybe this is a feature request, for our bugs system?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20%22Me%20too%22%20comments%20in%20bug%20systems&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F22%2Fme-too-comments-in-bug-systems&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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