Re: developer bug fixing statistics now available

Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

Hi, Martin Jansen wrote:

On Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 12:5507PM -0600, Gregory Beaver wrote:

Martin Jansen wrote:

I suggest we revert the bug fixer rank system until we have figured out how to do it correctly. The current algorithm does not work right and sheds a bad light on people. (Including me, but I don't _really_ mind.)

Does this look better? http://pear.php.net/bugs/stats.php#devs

I'm still wondering if I have "only" fixed 17 bugs so far. I really can't say, but somehow I feel that this number should be higher. ;-)

Why must these very questionable statistics appear on every single package homepage and profile? A design-related "bug" might take me 20 nights thinking and 20 days coding, while a simple "bug" is easily fixed in 5 minutes This sort of statistics will never faithfully represent the complex efforts one put into maintaining a package. But I agree they might be useful especially for developers' _auto-evaluation_.

I think this stat is just a nice feedback when you go on a bug hunting spree, but of course every bug is different. Some people write more bug free code initially. Also sometimes you work with multiple people or you just improve an existing bug report. For example I spend a lot of time validating, finding duplicate and patching PEAR::DB bugs, but the final resolution was done by Daniel, because I did not feel like I had the right to close bugs on that package. So the key question if its motivates some people while not demotivating others. In that case I think its good to keep them. But if too many developers feel wronged by the stats, then we should not have them. regards, Lukas