07/24/05 12:51 , Categories: Gentoo

In 3 years, 200 days, 23 hours, and 39 minutes Gentoo got 100.000 bugs.
That's 77.1613620909 bugs per day.
The first bug on record is How do I attach an ebuild. (at 2002-01-04 02:39 PDT) and the 100.000th is clanlib 0.7.8-r1 can't emerge (xargs: environment is too large for exec) (at 2005-07-23 03:18 PDT). As of this post we are up to 100.109 bugs. The off-by-one in the counting is because the first bug is #2. And as we all know 100.002-2 = 100.000!

I wonder how many of these are due to people using crazy CFLAGS?

Edit: Random wanker Daniel Hancock's comment is deleted and his IP is 218.101.84.118 for future reference.

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Comment from: Petteri R [Visitor]

Hopefully you are joking with your mathematics. That would mean that after the first bug (#2) we would have 2-2=0 bugs filed. So the 100.000th bug is actually Larry the Cow has suffered an udder amputation

07/24/05 @ 14:45

Comment from: lisa [Member]

· http://www.thedoh.com/~lisa/site

yeah i'm not so good with math

07/24/05 @ 15:26

Comment from: TGL [Visitor]

100K... woow, congrats buggers :)

For those who like meaningless figures, i've made some quick statistics about bugs Status & Resolution, using the Bugzilla "Reports" feature:

- global figures from the whole database (don't ask why total is 99996 bugs only, i don't know. Maybe the hidden Security bugs are missing?):
http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/100K_bug_stats/Status-Resolution.txt
8.2% bugs are open, that's not bad i guess. As for closed bugs, 63.6% are FIXED, 8.9% are INVALID, and 13.6% are DUPLICATE (0.009% of which i am to blame for ^_^)

- per-Severity figures:
http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/100K_bug_stats/Status-Resolution_per_Severity.txt
Nothing much surprising: for all kind of "real bugs", the open proportion is below 8%, whereas it's 13.7% for "enhancement" reports (which are 23.6% of the total bug number, btw).

- per-Product figures:
http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/100K_bug_stats/Status-Resolution_per_Product.txt
Congrats to the PPC team, who has zero bug left open. Sparc is not bad too, with only 0.9% of bugs still open. Far behind are Darwin/OSX (38.1% of bugs open) and Devrel (21.3%). Sure, I'm omitting "Gentoo Foundation", which is the real last one with 1 open bug on a total of 2 :)

- per-Component in the "Gentoo Linux" Product:
http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/100K_bug_stats/Status-Resolution_per_GentooLinux_Component.txt
"Ebuilds" totalizes almost half of this ones (44.5%). Congrats to gamers who almost never submit duplicate reports, and shame on Gnome or KDE users who do it ~20% of the time they fill bugs.

07/24/05 @ 18:05

Comment from: Ivan Yosifov [Visitor]

To make the figure less meaningless one can draw a conclusion

1) On the efficiency of the way devrel is currently running
2) That the "50% of the bugs filed in Bugzilla are duplicates, and this wastes a lot of our QA engineers' time" message on the bug reporting page is a little exagerated.

The figure also brings up the question of how many dupes would a Gnome gamer file... :D

07/24/05 @ 21:02

Comment from: Anne [Visitor]

Wow 77 bugs a day!

Ane "they" say windows is buggy! I wonder how many of these are critical security issues...

But then you knew I would make I comment like this didn't you lisa :P

Anne. (lisa's fiancee)

07/25/05 @ 10:48

Comment from: smithj [Member]

oh be quiet, anne :-)

the difference is that gentoo's bugs get FIXED

08/05/05 @ 19:53

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