689385 - Make Search Activity ratings based on current average

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Add-on Builder, defect, P1)

Description

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

We should determine the current average activity rating for all the Packages on the site, and use that as the starting place for determining what is Stale, Low, Medium, etc.

The average rating can be stored in memcached, and only calculated once it's expired.

Comment 1

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

@dbuc: finding and store the average is the easy part. Once I have the average, what do you suppose would be a good way of determining the other levels?

Medium: current average?
Low: 75% of Medium?
High: 125% of Medium?

Perhaps each level below Medium could be 25% below the next highest, and vice versa for each level above Medium?

Comment 2

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

I would assume that we'd use the mean of all activity as our C grade case. So every package with that grade automatically gets the equivalent of that on our friendly slider text scale. Curve the grade segments according to the overall mean and match that to the slider values. Is that clear?

Comment 3

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

Basically: Just use a normal distribution based one whatever our mean is for all total packages.

Comment 4

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

So, lets say we find that the average is 20%. That becomes the new 50%.

So Low (let's say Low is 30%), would then be 12%. Is this what you mean?

Comment 5

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

Precisely, making the brackets responsive to the site mean would make it correct in reference to the common activity level of the community. I would have the mean map to "Low" instead of "Moderate" on second thought.

Comment 6

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

I settled on making the current average be the 33% mark in the scale (which is currently in the middle of the Low category (20-40%)).

Comment 7

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

landed in master https://github.com/mozilla/FlightDeck/commit/d2aff12f5a60405a1cac39b1075f192754e58a25

Comment 8

[Zac C (:zac)]

I notice that some packages can be both Inactive and have some kind of activity at the same time. Should this slider separate the two states or am I being a bit pedantic? :)

Comment 9

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

Well, the way it works is that the value you select in the slider is the minimum activity we use to filter. So, Inactive means Inactive and up.

Perhaps its the UI's fault for not clearly showing that?

Comment 10

[Zac C (:zac)]

I don't think it lacks usability. Don't mind my pedantry, it's fine. I'm marking it resolved :)

Comment 11

[Zac C (:zac)]

Verified