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[Huw Wilkins <huw.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Let's talk about the bug start page for projects. I'm talking about 
pages like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad

At the moment we display the top 10 hottest bugs. There is no pagination 
or ordering controls. What do we gain by showing this listing? I'm not 
sure we gain that much. We get a small snapshot of bug activity, we 
don't overload the user with too many bugs that the user might not care 
about. Do we gain anything else?

What if instead of limiting the bugs we show a normal bug list? With the 
work the Orange team have done that list will have customisable bug 
attributes, it will be orderable and of course paginated. I think this 
is a great replacement for the snapshot of hot bugs we have now.

The question is, do we retain bug heat as the default order or is there 
something better? The options are:
 - Bug number (in practice this is essentially the same thing as bug age)
 - Title (alphabetised list of bugs)
 - Importance (good for showing bugs that often should be worked on first)
 - Status (good for showing bugs that are new or need triaging, 
depending on which status we listed first)
 - Bug heat (good for showing bugs that have recent activity or 
whatever it is that bug heat actually signifies)

Helmets on, bikeshedders, which do you think?

Cheers,

Huw