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[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/1/13 Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:46:49 -0600
> Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>> > This is one way of showing it, yes. We need to figure out how it looks
>> > on the listing, and if it's clear enough. The question on how to
>> > distinguish a bug with 1000 heat and another one with 10 is still on
>> > the table, no?
>> >
>>
>> I assumed there would be X different icons/indicators representing
>> varying degrees of hotness.  So as a simple example, let's say there
>> are 3 icons (I think in practice 5-7 is more appropriate) --
>> low_heat_icon.png, med_heat_icon.png, and high_heat_icon.png.  The
>> total group of hot bugs would be split into these categories based on
>> the heat numbers for that project.  A heat of 500 might be low for an
>> active project with 1000 bugs having some heat value but high in a
>> project with only 20 bugs with a heat value.
>
> I think the display used by Spotify, amongst others, to display song
> popularity is quite good. I've attached a (tiny) screenshot. A log
> scale would stop any sun-hot bugs from dominating. It could be coloured
> too, redder to the right perhaps, as an additional cue.

My vote is for simpler-is-better - i.e. 3 icons representing low,
medium and high bug heat. At least for the first iteration of this
feature (incremental improvement and all that).


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