I had about 2 bugs on bug #26943, and lots of other people had 5. Because of the recent voting policy change, it has gone from a top ten position to way down the list. A lot of people have been totally removed from the bug. Please make it so that reductions in vote maxima set the new maximum votes on the bug rather than none.

tara@tequilarista.org is the new owner of Bugzilla and Bonsai. (For details, see my posting in netscape.public.mozilla.webtools, news://news.mozilla.org/38F5D90D.F40E8C1A%40geocast.com .)

This bug has not been touched for more than nine months. In most cases, that means it has "slipped through the net". Please could the owner take a moment to add a comment to the bug with current status, and/or close it. Thank you :-) Gerv

The nature of this bug is going to be different depending on the particular policy change. While I agree with the submitter that policy changes should be coupled with means to properly transition votes from the old policy to the new one, some policy changes will be dramatic enough that the only practical solution will be to ask the advocates for a certain bug to elevate its visibility such that it gets the attention it deserves under the new policy. Based on the fact that I think there is no single, practical solution here, and that there has been no response to Gerv's request, I'm resolving this one INVALID.

WTF? I detailed a very clear solution to the general problem that is quite practical. The only reason Terry didn't do is because he was too lazy when he wrote the original code (or at least that's what I remember him telling me). No one replied because we're busy. The Bugzilla product doesn't have a horde of helpers like Mozilla does. If you wish to become one, great, but please get to know how the Bugzilla product works first. There are many RFEs sitting around doing nothing. There is no net to slip through. I know you had the best of intentions though, so I'll spare your backside from the wrath of my boot. =)

moving to real milestones...

OK, we can easily deal with this if you reduce the count per bug, but what if we reduce the total count? If some bugs need to be reduced more than others, especially if some need to be removed entirely, what should we do? Randomly pick victims? Make them pending votes (bug #65801)?

The patch that was just checked in for bug 92593 fixed this.

Moving to Bugzilla product