Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:05:31 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1998 Bugs Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903160936210.23362-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <36EE651B.D7EFAD7A@newsguy.com>
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How about another theory? IMHO FreeBSD hasn't gotten worse
in 1998. What we have done is increased the number of new
FreeBSD users. With increased exposure we find new problems
and many times just questions that need to be resolved that
either we haven't experienced before or have and not said
anything about it.
You mentioned the number 5000. Here's some interesting facts.
$ query-pr -q -a 19980101 | wc -l
5197
$ query-pr -q -a 19980101 -c ports | wc -l
2534
$ query-pr -q -a 19980101 -c ports -x | wc -l
336
$ query-pr -q -a 19980101 -c ports -x -r freebsd-ports | wc -l
218
$ query-pr -q -a 19980101 -x | wc -l
1364
What these numbers mean:
1) 5197 new PRs since January 1, 1998
2) 2534 half of those were for ports
3) 336 this is the number left open
4) 218 this is the number not assigned to anyone
5) 3883 or 74% of the PRs opened in 1998 are now closed
# I notice that we had almost as much bugs reported through send-pr on
# 1998 as we had on all previous years together...
#
# I can think of a few explantions...
#
# * 3.0-RELEASE with the kld and elf move?
#
# * number of users has been increasing at a very fast rate?
#
# * more committers -> more new committers -> more bugs?
#
# * quality has decreased?
#
# * size has increased?
#
# * someone managed to get the users to user send-pr at last?
#
# * all of the above?
#
# * none of the above?
#
# * others?
#
#
# So, I guess the question is... will we have as much new PRs this
# year (~5000)? Will we actually double again?
#
# On a more serious note (yup, the above was not quite serious), this
# vast increase in the number of new PRs will be straining us. Should
# we have a new type of contributor, in addition to our regular doc's
# people, ports' people and src's people (did I miss anyone?), the
# PR's people? (No, Brett, I don't mean PR as in press, but as in
# Problem Report ;)
#
# --
# Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
# dcs@newsguy.com
# dcs@freebsd.org
#
# "What happened?"
# "It moved, sir!"
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