2010/1/13 Gavin Panella <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:46:49 -0600 > Deryck Hodge <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> > This is one way of showing it, yes. We need to figure out how it looks >> > on the listing, and if it's clear enough. The question on how to >> > distinguish a bug with 1000 heat and another one with 10 is still on >> > the table, no? >> > >> >> I assumed there would be X different icons/indicators representing >> varying degrees of hotness. So as a simple example, let's say there >> are 3 icons (I think in practice 5-7 is more appropriate) -- >> low_heat_icon.png, med_heat_icon.png, and high_heat_icon.png. The >> total group of hot bugs would be split into these categories based on >> the heat numbers for that project. A heat of 500 might be low for an >> active project with 1000 bugs having some heat value but high in a >> project with only 20 bugs with a heat value. > > I think the display used by Spotify, amongst others, to display song > popularity is quite good. I've attached a (tiny) screenshot. A log > scale would stop any sun-hot bugs from dominating. It could be coloured > too, redder to the right perhaps, as an additional cue.
My vote is for simpler-is-better - i.e. 3 icons representing low, medium and high bug heat. At least for the first iteration of this feature (incremental improvement and all that). -- Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
