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--- mantisbt:summary_by_activity [2007/07/31 04:32] – created giallu
+++ mantisbt:summary_by_activity [2011/11/16 07:42] (current) – The page rendering was broken (maybe since new PHP version on mantisbt.org). Added new line to fix it at end of file. atrol
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 ===== Rationale =====
-The summary page could benefit from a list of the most active bugs; for the implementation of this feature several metrics were proposed as a measure of activity:
+The summary page could benefit from a list of the most active bugs, since active bugs are likely related to topics the users and/or the developers are interested in.
+Several metrics were proposed as a measure of activity:
   - the number of views of the given bug (currently, this data is __not__ available in mantis)
   - the number of monitors
   - the number of bugnotes
+  - the number of attachments
+===== Implementation =====
+The current implementation leverages the bug_history_table content to score the bugs and build the top ten list; this looks like the easiest way to take into account all of the above metrics (of course excluding bug views)
+  * Each history entry weights as 1 point
+  * only open bugs (e.g, with state below the resolved threshold) are listed
+Of course we could refine the scoring function to give "better" results; for example:
+  * weights more monitor events
+  * weight more has_duplicate events
+  * give negative weight certain events (unmonitor)
+and/or provide a custom function hook to personalize the scoring function