GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324852
Provide info about commenters on show_bug.cgi
Last modified: 2005-12-24 06:26:30 UTC
Olav mentioned in IRC that he wanted to have developers marked differently on show_bug.cgi so that people could easily tell which comments came from the developers of the module (much easier than clicking on the icon light bulb for each and every person). Sounds like a great idea. Extending the idea a little (and this is now a lot like Behdad's Bugzilla ideas on the wiki and was probably the actual source of the idea), we could possibly also provide info like whether a commenter watches the product, whether the person is really active in bugzilla (lots of bug reports/comments/bugs-closed or something), whether they're a gnome hacker and/or maybe other stuff. I'm not completely sure which info and how much we'd want, but I thought I'd file the bug so we don't forget.
Was indeed to provide more information about a person. I think we should do the following distinction: * developer of this product * developer of another product * editbugs * normal GNOME hacker is pretty arbitrary. Don't want to suggest people are not GNOME hackers just because we didn't put them in some group.
Sounds logical about not use Gnome hacker. I'd argue that "editbugs" doesn't mean a whole lot either, as it is something both long time contributors have as well as some people who have just joined for bug day and have only triaged a couple bugs (while some of us are reticent to hand out the privileges, the person with the most experience at bugmastering, Luis, often will hand these out for like the first bug the person triages). I'd like to do some kind of "activity level" that gives a rough idea of the three major stats shown on describeuser.cgi (comments added, bugs closed, bugs reported); perhaps the activity level could be a simple integer where higher means more active and it's hyperlinked to some page describing what the activity level is a rough measure of. The problem is that it might be slow. But, if we could get those stats quickly enough, something like log_10(1+comments) + log_2(1+closed) + log_2(1+reported) rounded off to the nearest integer could be a pretty interesting rough measure of "activity". Anyway, just some random ideas/thoughts. :)
2005-12-23 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Provide info about commenters on show_bug.cgi. Fixes #324852.