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Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming



Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:

> 
> Ahh, yes.  This is definitely planed.  I also wanted to link from
> the tasks pages to the bugs pages somehow indicating the bug status
> as well.  But I wanted to gather some comments on my estimation of
> the status first. 

I really like the idea - so here are my comments:

The biology status doesn't take into account the bugs in the two
metapackages it depends on (though how you'd do this, I'm not quite sure). 

As we've said in private e-mail, absolute bug counts are a measure of
help required, whereas quality would best be measured by normalising
to number of packages. I think you've made the right choice here. 

You might also want to ignore, or reduce the weight of bugs under a
certain age - perhaps an absolute cut off of 28 days, or perhaps a
sliding scale depending upon severity - with critical bugs becoming
important immediately. This might not be worth the effort of
implementing though.

With the exception of Mathematics-dev and biology, all the tasks have
the "red" status, and biology would too if it reflected the state of
the underlying tasks. I think therfore you're too harsh - and should
make it easier to obtain satisfactory status (but if/when we get good
at fixing bugs you could change it). 


I don't think you should give different severities the same score - as
you do for critical grave and serious, but I'm not sure I can come up
with a better set of numbers than you have.


Chris


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