From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:41:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080522144114.GC27301@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6c8ef150805220528w6c4911bfq2be92eaa487a0f3@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:28:17PM +0200, Bosko Radivojevic wrote:
> Hi!
Hi Bosko!
> Is there any kind of analysis of number of (reported or resolved) bugs
> through time in Linux kernel floating around? I'm trying to convince
> my colleagues that newer kernel version does not mean more bugs than
> the previous 'well tested' ones.
We definitely have many regressions (something that previously worked
does no longer work) in each kernel.
> Any kind of (research) reports or papers that address this issue is
> more than welcome.
Any such reports or papers would anyway be flawed since we have no data
one could use for doing serious statistics.
> Thanks!
>
> Sincerely,
> Bosko
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-22 12:28 Bosko Radivojevic
2008-05-22 14:41 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-05-22 14:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-22 15:47 ` Natalie Protasevich
2008-05-22 15:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 16:20 ` Natalie Protasevich
2008-05-22 16:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 17:08 ` Natalie Protasevich
2008-05-22 17:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 17:51 ` Natalie Protasevich
2008-05-22 18:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 22:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 9:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-23 14:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 16:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-23 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-23 20:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-26 17:05 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-23 10:35 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-05-23 15:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-05-22 16:22 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-22 16:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-05-22 17:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-22 17:45 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-22 19:17 ` Adrian Bunk
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