I followed the links to the coverity page that shows their table of errors found, and subsequently fixed in tools used for the LAMP stack. They say that they informed the maintainers of the software about the precise errors found and the number of errors has been tracked since then.
It seems there page has been updated with the results of the latest Python release o i thought I'd put a marketing spin on the data to show which projects have been fixing their bugs. I added the column showing % bugs fixed and sorted on that column to highlight just what you Python maintainers have achieved: Project Current Original Percent Lines of Defects / defects defects fixed code KLOC AMANDA 0 108 100.00% 88879 0 Python 0 96 100.00% 269609 0 Samba 0 216 100.00% 313893 0 XMMS 0 6 100.00% 117099 0 ethereal 11 143 92.31% 1131213 0.01 icecast 2 12 83.33% 37251 0.05 SQLite 6 31 80.65% 54257 0.11 PHP 47 204 76.96% 426559 0.11 wxWidgets 30 73 58.90% 310917 0.1 Net-SNMP 61 148 58.78% 173203 0.35 Gaim 51 113 54.87% 325646 0.16 Firefox 50 108 53.70% 305453 0.16 OpenSSL 35 66 46.97% 200813 0.17 xine 196 347 43.52% 578738 0.34 MPlayer 192 284 32.39% 489636 0.39 gcc 103 140 26.43% 696310 0.15 NetBSD 2529 3230 21.70% 5078094 0.5 Perl 70 89 21.35% 483331 0.15 Linux-2.6 847 1062 20.24% 3171895 0.27 apache-http 26 32 18.75% 127974 0.2 X.org 1448 1681 13.86% 2353980 0.62 Squid 48 53 9.43% 175345 0.27 Gnome 849 896 5.25% 1311031 0.65 tcl 67 69 2.90% 120865 0.55 OpenLDAP 154 158 2.53% 258144 0.6 snort 47 48 2.08% 94111 0.5 FreeBSD 632 635 0.47% 1582166 0.4 PostgreSQL 294 295 0.34% 816869 0.36 Inetutils 29 29 0.00% 72681 0.4 OpenVPN 7 7 0.00% 69905 0.1 ProFTPD 26 26 0.00% 90027 0.29 Firebird 194 163 -19.02% 271192 0.72 The original data is from http://scan.coverity.com/ on the day of this posting. - Paddy -- http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list