On Tue, 24 May 2011, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Having a big number of open bugs is uncomfortable for sure,
There are currently 72588 un-done bugs reported by 17692 different addresses which are maintained by at most 2484 maintainers. (Probably significantly less.) > but I would not worry about it if most problems are cared for and a > lot of feature requests are in the queue. Would be interesting to > see the numbers for Debian, but I could not find a statistical > breakdown of bug severities in Debian except for RC bugs. Perhaps > someone has the numbers... busoni 16:40:12 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep wishlist index.db|wc -l 23924 busoni 16:40:24 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep minor index.db|wc -l 8555 busoni 16:40:29 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep normal index.db|wc -l 33425 busoni 16:40:32 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep important index.db|wc -l 11329 busoni 16:40:37 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep serious index.db|wc -l 2473 busoni 16:40:42 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep critical index.db|wc -l 80 busoni 16:40:47 /srv/bugs.debian.org/spool$ grep grave index.db|wc -l 554 This all should be more easily available, but see #362457 for one of the requests regarding it. > Artificially throttling bug reports annoys users and makes Debian a > worse OS. If it is hard to report bugs you will only get the reports > of advanced users and only solve problems they can not get around - > simple problems for basic users will persist and bug that users that > do not have the skill to help themselves. Advanced users report basic bugs too. [And often, they include patches for them.] My primary goal is keeping the quality of bug reports high (ideally increasing their quality) while increasing the ability of individual developers to handle and deal with bug reports. While making it easier to report bugs is great, doing that at the expense of quality is not something that I'm personally willing to do. If someone has specific feature requests of the BTS, they can be made by filing wishlist bugs against bugs.debian.org or debbugs after checking to make sure that the existing request doesn't already exist. [If it does, feel free to add comments to the existing bug.] Don Armstrong -- No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110524165433.gt30...@rzlab.ucr.edu
