Re: Bug prioritization through web statistics
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 18:07 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, sagiea@bgu.ac.il wrote:
> > Is the Debian bug tracking system making use of bug report page-hit
> > data ?
>
> No. While tracking this would be interesting, it's not a really high
> priority for me, as maintainers typically don't consider the
> popularity of a bug report when considering which bugs to work on (and
> often, if it's popular enough, it tends to affect someone who cares
> enough to actually send it a patch or fix the bug directly.)
I agree - this should be used to point at bugs who's popularity doesn't
match their priority in a strong manner.
> That said, if this is something that strongly interests you, I would
> certainly accept patches that would introduce a log parser and a
> method of indicating the popularity of a bug report in the pkgreport
> pages and status output.
Not sure what logs are produced by debbugs but this would probable need
to be combined with Apache access logs... how could this data be
aggregated across bug report servers ?
>
> Don Armstrong
>
> --
> PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
> environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
> fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
> into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
> behind the computer has something significant to say.
> -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33
>
> http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
>
>
Reply to: