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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:42:28PM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:28:59PM +0100, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 January 2007 22:09, Andrew wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:00:47PM +0100, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 04 January 2007 19:27, Andrew wrote:
> > > > > Sort of, the mis-understanding is that you were supposed to fix all 
> > > > > the
> > > > > bugs in the entire section. Only the spells in whatever list we had
> > > > > picked mattered. The rest of the fixes are "nice-to-have" and would 
> > > > > get
> > > > > picked up in the cycle. The shouldn't have been to fix all the bugs 
> > > > > in
> > > > > all the sections right now before or else we cant release. It was a
> > > > > mistake that it was presented that way.
> > > >
> > > > You make it sound like there was such a list. We only get a few "must 
> > > > fix
> > > > before release+" now and then, nothing organised like the last time.
> > > > Without any focus or directions, everybody just does random stuff.
> > >
> > > There was a list, it was derived from ledger's usage statistics.
> > A public one? I went to check the archives and found nothing.
> > 
> 
> Well, I think it was something vague like "top 25% of spells on
> ledger. That it wasnt posted supports my point, it was probably part
> of the problem and led to the aforementioned misunderstanding that
> all the spells had to get fixed. So yes, there wasnt as formal a list,
> but you should be able to find posts that allude to this list. What Im
> suggesting now is that we *do* make that list. I started it (informally)
> with basesystem. People can add to it with their "one spell" I suggested
> earlier.

I have it here:
http://swoolley.homeip.net/files/spellstats.txt

I remember sending out just the cutoff list to the mailing list, but 
it'd be like finding a needle in a haystack now.  The above list is not 
truncated.

raw data:
http://swoolley.homeip.net/files/spellstats.html.txt

(that's straight from the big statistics.php list on ledger.)

program:
http://swoolley.homeip.net/files/stat.pl

The spellstats.txt gives you enough info to figure out what percentile 
to pick based on usages.  The last third of the file is a statistical 
layout.

Andrew's probably correct that we picked too high a bar.  You can see 
the ranking by actual users mid-way through.  Just take the top 100 of 
those or so.

Seth