[Bug 373893] Ability to compute "CQ Heat"
Bugzilla Link | 373893 |
Status | NEW |
Importance | P3 enhancement |
Reported | Mar 11, 2012 13:27 EDT |
Modified | Mar 11, 2012 13:27 EDT |
Reporter | David Williams |
Description
By chance, I just happened across this feature of the bug tracking system used by Ubuntu ... "Bug Heat" ... It is sort of like bugzilla's "votes", or even "priority", but based on a number of "weighted" factors. There is a description at this URL:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/+help-bugs/bug-heat.html
In case you can't access that URL without being a registered user, I'll duplicate a raw text version to help clarify this concept ...
Bug heat
Launchpad helps you to appraise a bug by giving you a calculated measure — called bug heat — of its likely significance. You can see bug heat in bug listings, and also on individual bug pages, as a number next to a flame icon.
Here's how Launchpad calculates the bug heat score:
Attribute Calculation
Private Adds 150 points
Security issue Adds 250 points
Duplicates Adds 6 points per duplicate bug
Affected users Adds 4 points per affected user
Subscribers (incl. subscribers to duplicates) Adds 2 points per subscriber
Given recent discussions about "priorities",
http://wiki.eclipse.org/SimRel/Priorities\
it'd be kind of cool (if not down right useful :) to "codify" them with some mechanism like "CQ Heat"
While not a perfect "quantitative measurement" it might provide a start to combining some complex input data and giving a little more visibility to a CQ's "priority". [Footnote: By "not a perfect quantitative measurement", I mean that a difference, say, between "300" and "305" might not mean that much, but hopefully, (overtime, with experience, and some tweaking of "points") it could get to the stage that "300" vs. "200" vs. "100" would mean something important.
So, just thought I'd enter this enhancement request to capture that other systems use such "weighted measures" ... so, maybe something to keep in mind for the future or future systems ... would be kind of cool if our own regular bugs had something similar too! :) ... but, just seemed related to the "CQ priorities" that have been on my mind.
BTW, if not obvious, I am suggesting this "CQ Heat" could only "help" decide what to work on next ... not "dictate" it.