LC Bug Survey Metasurvey - Ranking Criteria

[Mike Kerner]

As you probably recall, back in The Day, we could bug vote. Sometimes I
miss The Day.
I considered the immeasurable harm I have done to keyboards, especially
mechanical ones. I loved some of those keyboards. They gave their lives for
some of those bugs.
I also considered the number of bottles of scotch and sake that were gifted
to me from employees who thought that "just a taste" would help me calm the
hell down.
So if I murdered a keyboard, but was consoled with a smooth nigori, the net
was 0 and the bug demoted on my list.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 2:17 AM Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> I liked the Ranked-Top-Ten format of this latest LC Bug Survey.
>
> Now I'm curious: not about WHICH bugs people submitted,
> but your CRITERIA for ranking them.
>
> (I assume that's OK to discuss already at this point;
> not mentioning any specific bugs or areas/features of LC.)
>
> For me, first I had a prerequisite:
>
> 0. Still a reproducible bug in latest LC 965rc2.
>
> (Because I didn't want to waste any of the ten slots
> with an open bug that's actually fixed.
> Found a few to retest and report if resolved.)
>
> Then, I used three ranking criteria:
>
> 1. Is there a good workaround?
> 2. Severity.
> 3. How many projects it affects.
>
> (I weighted no-good-workaround highest,
> then eyeballed severity and scope equally.)
>
> Wondering whether most people had criteria like this,
> or just went from the feel of it.
>
> I would welcome encore future LC Top-Ten surveys!
> Maybe I'll make a Bug Ranker stack later to encourage it.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry Kenworthy
>
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