A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Tim Hunt -
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We have recently passed MDL-30000 in the tracker.

Stealing an idea that the Mozilla project used to do, I am going to run a pointless sweep-stake for developers. You are invited to guess when bug MDL-40000 will be reported.

Rules:

  1. You must be a Moodle developer to enter. My definition of Moodle developer is that either
Submit your guestimate of when issue MDL-40000 will be created in the format 2038-01-19 03:14:07. Time must be expressed in the Europe/London time-zone. That is, I will compare the entries with what I see when I am logged into the tracker. Entries must be received before MDL-32000 is filed. Enter by emailing me (email address in my profile) with 'Silly bug sweepstake' in the subject line.

Naturally, anyone being stupid (e.g. predicting a date tomorrow, an then writing a script to create 10000 bug reports) will be disqualified, or worse.

There is currenty no prise. If anyone wants to offer a prize, be my guest, but for now it is just for whatever glory might be available for making the best guess.

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Tim Hunt -
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Just bumping this, because someone sent me another entry, which reminded me about it.

If you want to partake of the sillyness, you still can, but you need to get a move it. We are up to MDL-31741 already.

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Dan Poltawski -

MDL-40000 came in last night 2013-03-04 20:24:00 (Europe/London)

Who won!?

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Aparup Banerjee -

if there hasn't been any, i propose the winner is the reporter. He could have had the closest guess just prior to reporting it.

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Paul Nicholls -

"Entries must be received before MDL-32000 is filed" means that they'd be disqualified, unless they have a time machine wink

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Tim Hunt -
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The entries were, ... drum roll, ...

Tomasz (Tomek) Muras    2013-05-11 19:28:00
Gareth Barnard                 2013-06-24 09:24:48
Andrew Nicols                  2013-07-23 21:33:09
Anne Krijger                     2013-08-21 02:00:00
Dan Poltawski                  2013-10-09 08:07:06

So, the winnder is ... further drum roll, ...

Gareth! with an error of ~19.5 days.

Tomasz is second with an error of ~24 days.

And, Dan should probably stick to integrating bug fixes, rather than estimating wink

 

I said there was not a prize. It occurs to me that perhaps Gareth's prize should be to run the next competition (if we think it is worth doing). I think it was a mistake restricting it to just developers. Sorry.

Also, using bug 50000 for the next competition might be too far in the future. Perhaps 44444 would be better?

 

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Thanks Tim smile

I'm happy to run the next competition - it's a bit of fun smile.  I agree about the restriction, but also think to be manageable and in the spirit of contributing to the Moodle community that you need to have a forum badge like 'Moodle developer', 'Particularly Helpful Moodler' etc. or have a plugin in the plugin's database.

Perhaps the next issue should be postfixed with the next Moodle version like 45026.

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Tim Hunt -
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45026 is not a number that grabs me. I would go for 44444 45000 or 50000, but if you are going to organise this, it is your call.

Anyone with a forum badge would work. A more relaxed option would just be to say anyone who has made a forum post.

I required people to send me a link with their entry (e.g. to a commit on github), so it was easy to verify.

In terms of organising, I just made a spreadsheet on google docs (not shared with anyone!) and listed the entries in there, so it was pretty easy. Well, I only got 5 entries, so it really was no effort.

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Re: A bit of silliness - bug sweepstake

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Dear Tim,

Entirely up to you if you want me to run the next one.  But if I do, I'll stick with the entry criteria to avoid having to spend ages entering vast lists of entries.  I know it's a silly thing but also want to encourage some effort to make getting the 'badge' a bit harder.

45026 I saw as more of a challenge but it is not such an inspiring number.  So, 45000 is probably more in your face.

Cheers,

Gareth

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