[development] Issue queue links from project pages?

Michael Favia michael at favias.org
Thu May 7 19:12:16 UTC 2009


Earnie Boyd wrote:
> The block can have the benefit of goading the maintainer into 
> maintaining it.  Prestige points for a small issue queue.  One problem 
> I see is the "Oldest issue" instead of the "Oldest bug report" and 
> "Oldest support request".  The age of a task or a feature request 
> shouldn't be viewed negatively.  An issue could be used simply to 
> track other issues or could be used to provide notes to remember and 
> these could be old by nature.

Agreed on all counts. Median figures are MUCH more useful in this regard 
as they ignore outliers. -mf


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