Re: Finding some bug statistics..

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Chander Ganesan wrote:
>> Do we have any published bug statistics? I'm looking for some
>> numbers such as the ones found here:
>>
>> http://bugs.mysql.com/tide.php
>>
>> In particular, I'd like to find on a monthly basis, the number of
>> bugs opened, and closed - preferably since some time in 2002.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated....
>
> The closest I think you would get is the changelogs, which generally
> will discuss bugs that are found and fixed. Unfortunately it will be
> tough to know which bugs were found on the basis of development versus
> user reports.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
So there's no central "bug database" that tracks such issues? These
kinds of statistics would likely be very useful in supporting statements
that speak to the maturity of PostgreSQL as a project, one metric of
which is the find/fix rate...

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