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Re: Bug statistics
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: Bug statistics |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:59:11 +0200 |
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On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:40:50 Richard Stallman wrote:
Hi Richard,
> 4594 reports [1]
> 2647 closed reports
>
> Amost 2000 bug reports not closed
> is rather disturbing.
>
> 14% have been marked "minor"
> 20% have been marked "wishlist"
> 9% are tagged "moreinfo"
> 5% are tagged "wontfix".
>
> That is about 40%. It seems to imply there are around 1200 bug
> reports which are not marked in these ways, and not fixed either.
> Is that true?
Statistics never lie. ;-)
I guess, that there are quite a lot duplicate bug reports. The problem
with M-x report-emacs-bug is that a bug gets filed unconditionally.
With web-based bugtrackers, after entering the bug summary the whole
database is searched for similar reports and that list is presended to
the user. Then she can decide if it's really a new, unknown bug. If
not, she can simply append additional information to an existing bug.
As a poor man's solution, I'd suggest to add some text to the beginning
of the bug report email M-x report-emacs-bug is creating, which asks the
user to first search the existing bugs at
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs
before filing a new one. (And maybe, there should be information how to
change the "To:" in the mail, so that the report will be appended to the
existing report if there is any.)
Bye,
Tassilo