On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
I don't think the average bug reporter has any idea whether something is an easy fix or not. Only a developer would know this. And developers don't read pages with names like 'How to file a good Issue" ;-) But I will document as part of the new volunteer orientation stuff I'm writing up. There are a number of pieces that I need to connect together -- the new volunteers directory, the new orientation modules, the BZ difficulty field, etc. Hopefully I can get this ready to launch soon. -Rob > >> >>> -Andre >>> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never > dealt with a cat." > -- Robert Heinlein
