From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755866AbYEZRei (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:34:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754370AbYEZRea (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:34:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:59534 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753717AbYEZRe3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 13:34:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:05:08 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Natalie Protasevich , Bosko Radivojevic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics Message-ID: <20080526170508.GB4617@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , Arjan van de Ven , Natalie Protasevich , Bosko Radivojevic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080522075135.4933161c@infradead.org> <20080522155425.GA2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <32209efe0805220920h1a2a0089t82b0173bbe239137@mail.gmail.com> <20080522165008.GB2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080522151834.03f2790f@infradead.org> <20080523090940.GG2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080523071157.3cfdc03a@infradead.org> <20080523165055.GC28257@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080523112908.19f9413d@infradead.org> <20080523203112.GA4886@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080523203112.GA4886@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk