[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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