On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
<johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Just bringing this topic to the appropriate mailing list
>
> On the last kernel meeting [1] it was suggested negative karma points should
> be linked to a reported bug which kinda makes sense if you think about it.
>
> What that means is that you ( as in reporter ) will no longer be able to
> provide negative karma without linking it to an already existing bug report
> either created by your or someone else if that came to be.
Is there such a surplus of people testing things and providing
negative karma that it's acceptable to refuse any that doesn't come
with a bug report? And is the pain of bugless negative karma so great
that it will overcome the cost of an additional mandatory step in the
karma reporting process?
IMO it should be optional but recommended. Enforcing it is not a good idea.
Why not start by sending email nags to people who've added
negative
karma but who haven't provided a buglink?
Well sending nag mails can become annoying resulting into people no
longer providing karma.