Bug heat is one of the stories under development by the Launchpad Bugs team for what is being called Launchpad v 4.0.

UDS Notes

What follows is the notes Deryck has from discussions at UDS (unedited, except for wiki-fying).

See Brian's algorithm for heat/gravity.

• Show heat indicator in bug lists, bug page
• Also show number of affected users
• These two are different and shouldn't be conflated

Issues:

• Number of affected users should follow when a bug is duped
• Last modified time should be considered
• Comment time should be considered
• How do you get bugs off the list (based on importance? based on something else? Or never?)

After working out algorithm --

• get bugs and ask QA if the algorithm will work for them
• work from the output, rather than trying to get too much input

Plans

3.1.12

• Design algorithm for calculating heat
• Get feedback from stake holders here

3.2.1

• Risky bits of bug heat done early
  • script to calculate bug heat
  • install as cron to test early
• Week 3 sprint show heat across LP
  • Show on bug page
  • Show on bug listings
  • Use in search

  • Draw any connections between this and Bug Q&A

3.2.2

• Consider bug heat done
• Any remaining bits landed week 1
• Polish based on stake-holder feedback rest of cycle
• Heavy QA to see how heat algorithm holds up over the cycle
  • Likely updates during cycle due to testing/feedback

Open Questions

1. Need to get a list of bugs for the feature tagged story-bug-heat
2. Need to get a list of all heat-related bugs tagged