814187 - Add "size of change" filter to revision dashboard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dashboards, enhancement, P2)

Description

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

A user should be able to filter the revision dashboard by the size of a change. Quoting Janet from bug 814186.

> The size filter would let you set a top or bottom threshhold for
> number of "words" changed, so you could look at just "big" or
> "small" revisions.

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

What should be considered big, what should be small?  Do we need character counts here?

Comment 2

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Janet - how many words delineate "big" from "small" revisions?

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I think we don't really know yet what "big" and "small" is. We should try with some values and see if it works.

I would consider as big any change affecting more than 10 words. I think we should be conservative here: 10 new words is quite big, but 10 typo-edit throughout the document surely not.

Not sure that such a simple heuristic can define big and small changes. (But better than nothing of course).

Comment 4

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

In that case, we should make it a constance config setting so we can change it live. https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/blob/master/settings.py#L941

Comment 5

[Janet Swisher]

I'm imagining a UI like:

Show only revisions with [less than|greater than] [10] changes.

Where the first [] is a select list, and the second [] is an edit or combo box.

Comment 6

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

David is looking at the revision dashboard now. Maybe he could take a look at this.

Comment 7

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

This would help me to see quickly where we have large contributions as I am compiling a weekly report on MDN content activities now. https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Content/Weekly

How complex is this to fix? Can anyone give me a hint on how to approach this one?