How to calculate priority for missing tests or %check

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 12:54 +0200, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I've started working to identify packages with missing upstream test suites or 
> not running the tests in %check. Having a list of hundreds of packages now I 
> need to prioritize them somehow. This will help in later steps when spec files 
> need to be fixed or somebody wants to start working with upstream on writing a 
> test suite.
> 
> My idea is to take all bugs against Fedora in the last few years (or releases). 
> Packages with bigger number of bugs receive higher priority than those with 
> less. Then based on this prioritize.
> 
> 
> How long should the time frame be?  I'm thinking 3 to 5 years.
> 
> 
> Where low/medium/high priority boundaries are ? (could be 30%, 60%, 90% for 
> example).
> 
> 
> Do you have other ideas how to calculate priority of these items?

Anything on critpath -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_path_package - should probably
go straight to high priority.
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