====== Most active bugs summary ======

This is tracked at: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=8208

===== Rationale =====

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