On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 08:16:40AM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:

> I did a little bit of calculation based on
> http://stats.cpantesters.org/testers.html
> and got these data points:
> ...
> Chris Williams (BINGOS) sent in 4,487,765 (34%)
> ...
> The top 63 ppl (3.66%) sent in 12,378,913 (96.46%)
> Which makes that the point of the so called 20-80 rule.
> So in the case of the CPAN Testers it is more like 4-96 rule.
> 
> IMHO while the 20-80 rule is known in many situations 4-96 is a bit unhealthy.
> There are two ways to make it more balanced, one to make BingOS stop
> running smokers or, the better way is to get more people regularly send in
> reports.

If Chris stops, it won't achieve anything apart from us not getting
reports from any platforms where he's the only person doing any testing.
How is this "balance" supposed to be a good thing?

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