From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug statistics Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1focf1eb1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277404010 31754 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2010 18:26:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 24 20:26:49 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 1ORr8T-0007gR-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:26:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORr8S-000706-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55201 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORr8N-0006yo-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ORr8L-0001Fi-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:36773) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ORr8L-0001Fe-Cr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORr8K-0003nW-O1; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:26:40 -0400 X-Spook: Delta Force Skipjack Mantis cybercash ANZUS Kosovo Reno X-Ran: B4Gv_B-^-J-B6${.n|N04H'Q2qny~D<:sB.R%a"?1RE%J@yrq2fA^u8sFHr/s%*\-zR^Ap X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126368 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > 20% have been marked "wishlist" > 9% are tagged "moreinfo" > 5% are tagged "wontfix". > > That is about 40%. It seems to imply there are around 1200 bug > reports which are not marked in these ways, and not fixed either. > Is that true? The total number of open Emacs reports not marked wishlist, wontfix, moreinfo, or unreproducible, is 1295. Excluding all merged bugs, it is 1143. So the real answer is somewhere inbetween. Excluding minor bugs, the number is about 950. Further excluding bugs marked as specific to the MS-Windows or Mac ports, the number falls to about 780. Half of these reports were opened in the last 8 months. So it is not as bad as it first appears. (Exclude the top 4 bug submitters, and it falls to 640...) I'm also sure there are lots of things that haven't been given the appropriate tags. And probably some things that were fixed but haven't been closed (or are waiting for people to confirm they can be closed). > Can you compute the number of bug reports that are waiting for action > by the maintainers? I don't know how to quantify this. I can try to answer any question you can frame as the equivalent of one or more greps. I don't think the precise numbers are especially meaningful though. The short answer is that there are certainly lots of open reports, and it would be great if people could help deal with them. This is always going to be the answer. About the only useful thing I take away from this exercise is that there are many people whose only interaction with the developers is in the form of a single bug report. Good to try and remember this.