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From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: Erik <freeciv@home.se>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Xconq-general] Xconq Ranking at Sourceforge
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 17:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0412040802270.914@opal.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412041339.02982.freeciv@home.se>

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Erik wrote:
> > log (3 * # of forum posts for that week) + log (4 * # of tasks ftw) +
> > log (3 * # bugs ftw) + log (10 * patches ftw) + log (5 * tracker items
> > ftw) + log (# commits to CVS ftw) + log (5 * # file releases ftw) + log
> > (.3 * # downloads ftw)"

> When I saw that formula  it was obvious to me that it does not weight the
> data. Since I found that strange I searched for the documentation. And it
> says: "We are aware that the current formula does not actually weight the

I wondered about that, too.  Having the multiplications inside the logs
means that outside the logs they're the same thing as just adding a
constant.  However, if the formula were "fixed" in the obvious way, by
moving the multiplications outside the logs, then I think it would favour
us even more strongly.
-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-04 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-03 17:32 Eric McDonald
2004-12-04  0:41 ` [Xconq-general] " Elijah Meeks
2004-12-04  0:50   ` Eric McDonald
2004-12-04  5:04     ` Elijah Meeks
2004-12-04 13:03     ` Erik
2004-12-04 17:08       ` mskala [this message]
2004-12-04 22:38       ` Eric McDonald

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