Re: [libreoffice-users] Summary of bugs

On 10/25/2011 06:52 PM, e-letter wrote:
> On 25/10/2011, v_2e@ukr.net<v_2e@ukr.net>  wrote:
> >    Hello!
> >    Is it possible to see not only the total numbers of bugs on
> > categories, but also the "progress" in time? It is also interesting to
> > see the number of fixed (and not fixed) bugs on each new LO version.
> > Can I find such information?
> "Progress" to what? Resolution of the error? This would be represented
> by the ratio of fixed to unresolved bugs.
>
> In terms of each LO version, have been thinking about a periodic
> retrieval of the csv data for this summary table and then plotting the
> results. If this was repeated on a monthly basis, you would see how
> bugs resolution occurred during time, which would be interesting.
>
> It is interesting to review this data. Since the first issue, the
> total number of bugs has increased. There does not seem to be a method
> of obtaining historic data which is a disappointment. The ratio of
> bugs assignment to new bugs is less than 10 %; is this to be expected?
The big problem I see with tracking reported bugs is that some are not 
bugs per se and some of the bugs are not explicitly killed when a new 
version is produced. For example conversion of MSOx files were dodgey 
with 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 but were much improved with 3.4.0 and later 
releases in the 3.3.X family. Obviously there was a bug that was fixed 
with the later versions but was this reported fixed because it was 
reported against an earlier version - I do not know.

The code cleanup efforts by the devs has killed many bugs in the later 
releases but are they reported as fixed against the earlier releases.

The statistics may be interesting but I suspect they could be very 
misleading because of different definitions used to determine what 
exactly is a bug and what constitutes a fix.

In concept the idea is straightforward but it is probably more difficult 
to pin down. Also, bugs should be weighted; bugs do not  have the same 
overall severity.

The other issue is trying to compare the number of bugs in LO against 
MSO - you do not have any MSO data that I know about.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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