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Re: Bug statistics
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Dan Nicolaescu |
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Re: Bug statistics |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:28:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> 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?
>>
>>Can you compute the number of bug reports that are waiting for action
>>by the maintainers?
>
> Percentage of bug reports not closed is not in itself a problem. It's
> possible that bugs-not-triaged is a problem, but that really depends on
> many things about the project.
>
> http://ostatic.com/blog/fixing-the-perception-of-bugs
>
> (And yes, I'm quoting someone quoting me in order to give my opinions
> more authority. :-) )
>
> IMHO the poor web interface of our bug tracker is an impediment to
> finding and triaging bugs. Heck, I can't even find the tracker half the
> time. If I start at http://gnu.org/software/emacs and click on the link
> to [what is purported to be] the Emacs bug database, I am taken to the
> generic top of the Gnu tracker: http://debbugs.gnu.org/. Then there is
> a table there, with a row for Emacs. Since what I want to do is search
> the Emacs bug database, I take the closest option to that, which is the
> "Browse bug reports" column with its cell for "Emacs reports". Clicking
> on that brings me to:
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs;max-bugs=100;base-order=1;bug-rev=1
Although the debbugs UI is far from ideal, do you have any evidence
that is one of the more important problems?
IMO the main problem is man power.
There are >100 bugs with patches attached that have not been applied.
For a lot of these patches there's no obvious maintainer to take care
of them, so one of the maintainers would have to do it.
Same goes about bug reports, quite a few are about areas that nobody
feels particularly attached to, so they don't get any action.
Re: Bug statistics, Karl Fogel, 2010/06/24
Re: Bug statistics,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
Re: Bug statistics, Karl Fogel, 2010/06/24
debbugs search output [was Re: Bug statistics], Glenn Morris, 2010/06/24
Re: debbugs search output, Glenn Morris, 2010/06/24
Re: debbugs search output, Karl Fogel, 2010/06/24
Re: Bug statistics, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/25
Re: Bug statistics, Chong Yidong, 2010/06/25
Re: Bug statistics, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
Re: Bug statistics, Chong Yidong, 2010/06/26
Re: Bug statistics, Richard Stallman, 2010/06/26
Re: Bug statistics, Dan Nicolaescu, 2010/06/25