Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 10:30:32 -0400 as excerpted:

> I don't think it is a bad thing if you wanted to publish the top-5
> issues of the week/month/etc on the lists or something useful for
> general education/improvement.  The key is to keep the general relevance
> of the lists high.

++ on the top-5 idea.  That would let people know what the most common 
problems are, without singling out individuals (unless they're doing 
enough commits with the same mistake to end up in the top-5 all by 
themselves).

k_f's idea of putting it on the wiki could be done too, with the top-5 
post here linking the wiki for details like specific commits, etc.  That 
would leave them out of the posting here, helping to further remove any 
feeling of personal finger-pointing and to make it more about the most 
common problems and the easiest way to avoid them.

It'll be interesting to see how the most common issues and the number of 
occurrences thereof then change over time, and that should help in terms 
of review-project feedback as well.  Less directly publicized as ideally, 
individual offenders aren't named in the top-five posts themselves, but 
also helpful in terms of feedback and also possibly of interest to QA 
over longer periods, would be whether the same problems continue to show 
up from the same people, or whether once they're alerted to them, they 
improve, and even if the problem continues to appear in the top-5, it's 
not the same people repeating the same problem.

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