Re: [boost] A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

Subject: Re: [boost] A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-31 17:06:37

On 31 Oct 2013 at 11:59, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> No automated system can correctly distinguish between
> - serious bug
> - minor bug
> - user error
> - "yeah, it would be nice. I might get to it someday"
> - &c.

Such a system isn't looking for that - rather, it is looking for any 
activity by the maintainer at all. Comments, for example, count.

The most important thing, I think, is detecting user frustration and 
anger. If a library is seeing a lot of new issues containing 
frustration, that is a good sign a closer look is needed. I agree 
that coding up the appropriate Bayesian filters is probably a bit 
hard ... but I did read somewhere about some Google web service API 
which can be used to grok text for sentiments.

Anyway, this is all surely many years out after modularisation has 
been around for a while.

Niall

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