Re: Number of bugs - statistics

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:31:12PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
 > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:29:08AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > > On Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:55 +0300
 > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
 > > 
 > > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:11:57AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > > > > On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:09:40 +0300
 > > > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
 > > > > 
 > > > > > 
 > > > > > And in case anyone says "not forwarded distribution bugs aren't
 > > > > > our problem":
 > > > > > That's a nice example, since in this case a distribuion suddenly 
 > > > > > starting to agressively forwarding their bugs might contribute to
 > > > > > making the kernel better, but might also totally ruin the numbers
 > > > > > in any statistics.
 > > > > 
 > > > > Fedora gets less than 1000 bugs per release (so 6 month window).
 > > > > That's... peanuts.
 > > > 
 > > > 2000 kernel bugs per year?
 > > 
 > > it's going down; 750-ish for the last few releases
 > > 
 > > (see http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/116718.html )
 > 
 > It's a bit suspicious that the "Total number of bugs filed across all 
 > packages" also went down by quite some amount.

The last two releases hadn't reached end-of-life yet. I just updated
that entry, with the latest numbers for F7/F8, and threw in F9 too.

      total    kernel
F7    5534     724
F8    7589     902
F9    4624     292

Given F9 has only been out a few weeks, that's quite high.  As more
people move from F7 -> F8 as F7 gets closer to end of life, the bug
count there is shifting too.
(for point of reference, F7 is on 2.6.24, F8 is about to get a .25 update,
 F9 was released with .25)

 > Are recent Fedora kernels less buggy or do less people file bugs since 
 > everyone now uses Ubuntu?

My majority of my job is still spending reading and dealing with bugzilla.
I think if there were a noticable drop-off, I'd have more time to be
sitting around eating cheetos or doing something else.  That hasn't happened.

	Dave

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