0007058: Keep track of number of times an issue was viewed - MantisBT - Signup temporarily disabled due to spam

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007058	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2006-05-08 17:53	2008-08-12 09:36

Reporter	vboctor	Assigned To	vboctor
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	1.0.3

Summary	0007058: Keep track of number of times an issue was viewed
Description	It would be useful to keep track of such information, display it in the issue view page (optional) and can be an optional column in the View Issues page. This can be used to sort issues by popularity.
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redcom 2006-05-09 10:04 reporter ~0012793	This seems like it would make things a little slow to constantly write to the database on a view of an issue -- not to mention it is not nessisarily a good indication of how popular an issue is, since people might just be looking at the issue to determin if it is applicable to what they are searching for. A better solution would be to use the count of the total users monitoring the issue to show how popular the issue is.

stevemagruder 2006-05-09 13:51 reporter ~0012799	With MySQL, an "insert delayed" can be used to speed up such view writes. Re: monitoring, I would venture to say that most people don't bother to monitor issues, such that most issues will go unmonitored, especially in a public implementation of Mantis. Why can't we have "Popular" (via # of views) and "Most monitored"? Further, if views are counted, there would need to be a way of avoid the "stuffing of the ballot box" by setting a threshold per IP address per time period.

giallu 2007-07-28 19:13 reporter ~0015265	I'd like to add a "most popular bugs" to the summary page so I thought about what metrics to use to define "popular". IMHO, both number of monitors and number of views are not ideal for the reason you explained, so I looked at what we have already in the DB and used the number of notes to filter bugs. IMHO, this gives a nice idea of what users are interested in What do you think?

vboctor 2007-07-29 22:10 manager ~0015282	If I order the three factors, I will order them as follows: Notes Monitor Views. I agree that 1 and 2 are better metrics. I don't agree that Monitoring is not a good metric of popularity, I think both notes and monitors are good. The other thing that was raised several times is voting. However, the idea is how to control that users don't vote for all issues! With monitoring and notes, at least they get cc'd on future discussion relating to the issues :)

giallu 2007-07-30 04:15 reporter ~0015287	Victor: please see the related bug 0008208 (patch ready...) where I used the number of history items (so includes both add notes and monitoring events) to score the bugs. About voting, I will search for open bugs and add my thoughts there

vboctor 2008-03-16 03:25 manager ~0017367	Marked this as won't fix. I believe that 0008208 and 0000668 are more effective and efficient ways to reflect popularity. Although I believe that once voting is implemented, the query used for 0008208 must be revised.