As Michael Schwendt has pointed out, NEW implies neither that the bug
hasn't been looked at nor that there has been no activity on it.
Russ Herrold is also correct: if bugs are not being looked at, then
that's not the fault of the bug-tracking system, it's the fault of the
people who are supposed to be looking at the bugs.
Drawing conclusions from a single package is rigging the game, since
what we're discussing is that some packages are maintained better than
others.
Looking at F18 is rigging the game, because a package maintainer may
have (reasonably) stopped looking at F18 bugs when F19 came out if s/he
knows that F19 has a new version which fixes significant bugs.
Having said all that, let's assume, for the sake of argument, that NEW
bugs haven't been looked at or responded to, and try to answer the
question of what percentage of Fedora bugs aren't being looked at or
responded to in a reasonable amount of time. My methodology is to look
at the total of all Fedora bugs filed between one and two months ago (to
limit the scope of the problem -- otherwise you're just dealing with too
many bugs) and then to look at how many bugs within that same time
period are in state NEW.
There are 2,129 NEW Fedora bugs and 5,199 total Fedora bugs filed
between 2013-07-24 and 2013-08-24. That's only 40% of the total number
of bugs, which disproves assertion that the majority of bugs aren't
being dealt with. If we go back a month earlier, from 2013-06-24 to
2013-07-24, there are 1,715 NEW bugs out of 3,932 total bugs, i.e., 43%.
Still not the majority. A month earlier than that, 1,407 out of 3,804 =
36%. Still not the majority.
I entirely agree with you that it would be better if those percentages
were lower. But driving those numbers is not the end goal. The end goal
is to improve the quality of Fedora as much as we can with the resources
we have, and I (and many others, clearly) don't believe that no longer
tracking Fedora bugs in RHBZ will accomplish that.
jik
On 09/24/2013 02:35 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 09/24/2013 03:48 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>
>So from my point of view we wont be gathering reports from novices
>end users in 10 years time.
This is a plain self-fulfilling prophecy. If you will manage to kill
report gathering means then indeed you will have no reports; from novice
users in particular.
While bugzilla is far from perfect and it can be frustrating at times
a "solution" you are pushing does not even start to pass a laugh test.
Really...
Let's run a simple query against bugzilla for bugs in the status NEW
( as in not looked at ) and find out the oldest report from our
reporters for the soon to be EOL released F18 which should have the
longest time maintainers could have responded bugs filed by reporters.
The oldest bug was filed by Stef Walter <mailto:st...@redhat.com>on
2012-08-15 against binutils with total of 7205 bugs found. ( You can
multiple that number by half an hour at least of reporters time )
Now let's look at the gory details of EOL bugs closed wontfix running [2]
8031 bugs found.
Do you honestly think this is a) healthy b) constructive for new
reporters ( which usually leave after waiting up to 13 months having
their bug fixed or in the case of the above over a year for somekind
of feedback from the maintainer )
I would think the highest priority from a QA perspective is to both
report and actually get the highest chances of having the bugs fixed
as well as receiving some kind of feed back from the maintainer while
reporters are at it.
JBG
1.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&classification=Fedora&limit=0&list_id=1738567&order=changeddate%2Cbug_id&product=Fedora&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&version=18
2.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=CLOSED&classification=Fedora&email2=endoflife%40fedoraproject.org&emaillongdesc2=1&emailtype2=substring&limit=0&list_id=1738569&order=changeddate%2Cbug_id&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced&resolution=WONTFIX&version=17
ps.
Here's an exercise for the reader find out how many got fixed in F17 (
for the shocking truth )
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