From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug statistics Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87ocexftvq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <1focf1eb1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <874ogsthn2.fsf@red-bean.com> <83fx0be7ad.fsf@gnu.org> <87eifuq2t0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83y6e2cgwf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277582343 2394 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2010 19:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 21:59:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSbWn-0001zc-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:59:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSbWl-0007KR-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33507 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSbWf-0007Ju-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSbWe-0004xN-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po44.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.78]:58095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSbWd-0004x4-RM; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (173-14-147-246-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.14.147.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po44.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o5QJwo2e010147 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6D40B16D416; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:58:49 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83y6e2cgwf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:55:12 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126447 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Many of the unfixed bugs are "long tail" problems that are rather >> difficult to find and/or fix. > > This observation should be backed up by some numbers. Do we know for > a fact that a significant proportion of unfixed bugs belong to this > category? It is an anecdotal observation, but you can get a good feel of the situation by browsing some of the open bugs with numbers less than 3000.