Re: Finding some bug statistics..

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Chander Ganesan <chander(dot)ganesan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Finding some bug statistics..
Date: 2008-10-02 20:16:16
Message-ID: 48E52C10.1060000@hagander.net
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Chander Ganesan wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>>> Also, is the sequence only a sequence, or is some of the data held in
>>> the
>>> database (queryable?) At the very least, I could probably get an
>>> idea of
>>> the bug submit rate by looking at the first bug of each month in the
>>> bugs
>>> archive (or are many of the "bugs" really SPAM)?
>>>
>>
>> It's literally just a sequence. And the messages do get moderated, so
>> some numbers will be lost as spam.
>>
> Wow. Looks like even if we look at just the sequence value, over the
> course of a year, the number of "bugs" (many of which might be
> documentation related, or "not a bug" bugs) submitted via the form is
> less than the number that MySQL gets in two months.

Well, it's not a realistic metric. To be fair, we get a number of bug
reports that do not come through that webform as well. So it really has
on real bearing at all on how many bug reports there are.

//Magnus

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