On 10/26/2012 07:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 24.10.2012 22:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>> >>> @Regina, >>> >>> Yes, Wizard is a reference to the level of mastery that a solver must >>> possess, and is one of those "which one of these words does not belong" >>> solutions. >>> >>> There is a well-known *logarithmic* difficulty scale that has been used >>> over 40 years for problem difficulty. It might be worth adapting: >>> >>> (after unknown), >>> >>> 00 easy - immediately solvable by someone willing to do it >>> 10 simple - takes minutes >>> 20 medium, average - quarter hour >>> 30 moderate, an evening >>> 40 difficult, challenging, non-trivial (term project, GSoC...) >>> 50 unsolved, deep, requires a breakthrough, research >>> (PhD dissertation) >>> 60 intractable (that I just made up - probably not something that >>> is technically feasible regardless of skill, Nobel Prize, >>> P = NP, etc.) >> >> >> Is this not similar to what Knuth used (uses) in his "Art of Computer >> Programming" series? >> > > It reminds me of Knuth as well. > > In any case, I've added the new field, using the above scale, but > changing "unsolved" to "research", since all open bugs are unsolved in > some sense. > > -Rob
Rob, Will you be updating the information/instructions on: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/HowToFileIssue with this new field? > >> -Andre >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MzK "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." -- Robert Heinlein
