On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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. > OK, I know what you're saying...the thing is this will be a field the reporter can access, correct? They *may* put something in or wonder what they should use. I just think for completeness it should be included. and thanks for all of this... > -Rob > > > > >> > >>> -Andre > >>> > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > MzK > > > > "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never > > dealt with a cat." > > -- Robert Heinlein > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat." -- Robert Heinlein
