[Tracker-discuss] [Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

[R. David Murray]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 at 18:06, Python tracker wrote:
> ACTIVITY SUMMARY (03/27/09 - 04/03/09)
> Python tracker at http://bugs.python.org/
>
> To view or respond to any of the issues listed below, click on the issue
> number.  Do NOT respond to this message.
>
>
> 2272 open (+59) / 15229 closed (+39) / 17501 total (+98)
>
> Open issues with patches:   857
>
> Average duration of open issues: 647 days.
> Median duration of open issues: 388 days.
>
> Open Issues Breakdown
>   open  2222 (+57)
> pending    50 ( +2)
>
> Issues Created Or Reopened (103)
> ________________________________
>
[...]
>
> Issues Now Closed (233)
> _______________________
>

Let's see if I understand this.  So there were 98 new issues opened,
of which 39 were closed in the reporting period and 50 were left open.
Then in a disjoint reporting, 103 items become opened either by being
created or by being reopened, and 233 bugs in total went from some open
state to closed during the reporting period.

OK.  But that first line is _really discouraging_.  I suggest we change
this report to provide statistics that are designed to encourage people
using the tracker when they make progress on reducing the total number
of outstanding bugs, or at least make it clear that the open bug count
isn't increasing as fast as the above report format makes it seem.

(An aside: I don't think I care how many total bugs there are.  IMO that's
just noise in a report like this.)

I'd like to see something more like:

     New issues this week:            98
     Old issues reopened:              5
                                     ---
     Additional open this week:      103

     New issues closed this week:     39
     New issues set close pending:     2
     Old issues closed this week:    194
                                     ---
     Total issues closed this week:  233


     Open issue count on 03/27:     2353
     Open issue count on 04/03:     2222
                                    ----
     Net decrease in open issues:    131

Presumably there is also an 'old issues set pending' line to add
in the second set.

Would this be possible?  Any other suggestions for clearer and/or more
moral building reporting?

--David