On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
For those wondering why this is being sent out. We'd like to get a better idea of how were doing in bugs coming in/out and the types of issues moving about on a weekly basis.
Brion just wanted a simple and quick to read summary email that we could all take a look at and either pat ourselves on the back for a week well done, gripe over too many bugs or wallow in a state of ambivalence.
There are always more metrics that could be added to it but that would just complicate it from looking like a scoreboard.
Maybe a list of individual changed bugs at the bottom would be helpful. I'm thinking something like
Bugs RESOLVED FIXED:
(bug nnnnn) Special:Widget broken on MS-DOS servers (bug nnnnn) ...
and so on. It would be a couple hundred extra lines, but it would be useful to be able to skim it over quickly to see if there's anything interesting-looking.