{"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":"https:\/\/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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about &#8220;me too&#8221; types of bug replies, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[331,330,1775,136,332,43,333,334],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-bug-tracking","tag-bugs","tag-mysql","tag-spam","tag-ui","tag-usability","tag-voting","tag-worklog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-e2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}