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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:28:24 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla
From: jan iversen <jancasacondor@gmail.com>
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Did I miss something, I thought we had the status "confirmed" to be used
not by the bug reporter but by a developer or likewise, and when
"confirmed" is set, that is the time to give the bug an easy/wizard level.

The process should be:
- someone reports and describes a bug
- someone technically qualified confirms the bug, put a comment in on where
the bug probably sits and gives it a level.

Or is that too much ??

rgds
jan

On 27 October 2012 00:09, Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/26/2012 07:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andre Fischer <awf.aoo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> On 24.10.2012 22:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> @Regina,
> >>>>
> >>>>    Yes, Wizard is a reference to the level of mastery that a solver
> must
> >>>> possess, and is one of those "which one of these words does not
> belong"
> >>>> solutions.
> >>>>
> >>>> There is a well-known *logarithmic* difficulty scale that has been
> used
> >>>> over 40 years for problem difficulty.  It might be worth adapting:
> >>>>
> >>>>    (after unknown),
> >>>>
> >>>>     00 easy - immediately solvable by someone willing to do it
> >>>>     10 simple - takes minutes
> >>>>     20 medium, average - quarter hour
> >>>>     30 moderate, an evening
> >>>>     40 difficult, challenging, non-trivial (term project, GSoC...)
> >>>>     50 unsolved, deep, requires a breakthrough, research
> >>>>        (PhD dissertation)
> >>>>     60 intractable (that I just made up - probably not something that
> >>>>        is technically feasible regardless of skill, Nobel Prize,
> >>>>        P = NP, etc.)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is this not similar to what Knuth used (uses) in his "Art of Computer
> >>> Programming" series?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It reminds me of Knuth as well.
> >>
> >> In any case, I've added the new field, using the above scale, but
> >> changing "unsolved" to "research", since all open bugs are unsolved in
> >> some sense.
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >
> > Rob, Will you be updating the information/instructions on:
> >
> > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/HowToFileIssue
> >
> > with this new field?
> >
>
> I don't think the average bug reporter has any idea whether something
> is an easy fix or not.  Only a developer would know this.  And
> developers don't read pages with names like 'How to file a good Issue"
> ;-)
>
> But I will document as part of the new volunteer orientation stuff I'm
> writing up.  There are a number of pieces that I need to connect
> together -- the new volunteers directory, the new orientation modules,
> the BZ difficulty field, etc.  Hopefully I can get this ready to
> launch soon.
>
> -Rob
>
> >
> >>
> >>> -Andre
> >>>
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MzK
> >
> > "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never
> >   dealt with a cat."
> >                                 -- Robert Heinlein
>

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