On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 04:50:24PM +0200, Przemyslaw Wesolek wrote: > > Although I don't have that much trust in adherence to one-of-many Pareto > rules, I agree that long tail of one-time testers (11% sent only one > report, 30% sent less than 7 reports) is a problem.
Why? Don't get me wrong, if we can encourage more regular testers that would be brilliant, but I don't want to discourage occassional, or even one-time testers in the process. Occasional testers are just as valuable as the automated smokers, as they provide results from different environments. > However, that are all-time statistics. Let's take a look at this year. > Out of 198 reporters, less that 4% sent only one record, 12% sent less > than 7 reports. So this is much better than overall stats. I'm going to look at providing some additional statistics like this so we can get a clearer picture of how this changes over time. However, like all statistics, they won't convey the true picture as it isn't always clear what machine a report comes from. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org> YAPC Conference Surveys <http://yapc-surveys.org> Ark Appreciation Pages <http://ark.eology.org>
