From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757071AbYEVQYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753911AbYEVQYc (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:32 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:39669 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753854AbYEVQYb (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 12:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: <48359DE1.8050600@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:22:57 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Arjan van de Ven , Bosko Radivojevic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics References: <20080522144114.GC27301@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080522075135.4933161c@infradead.org> <20080522155425.GA2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> In-Reply-To: <20080522155425.GA2727@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:51:35AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> Maybe some other data: >> * The incoming rate of ACPI bugs has been pretty much flat the last 3 >> years, while the number of Linux (and ACPI) users has grown >> significantly. The number of unfixed bugs has more than halved, from >> over 200 to well below 100. >> * The SCSI maintainer also reports that he sees flat to declining bug >> rates; again with the increase in Linux user base that is a good sign > > Andrew sees and handles the majority of incoming bug reports. > Ask him whether he agress with this. > > And ALSA alone has 2000 open bug reports, which makes the open ACPI or > SCSI bug numbers relatively irrelevant in any "number of bugs" > statistics. Central facilities like ACPI and SCSI having relatively few [and according to Arjan a decreasing number of] reported unfixed bugs is... irrelevant? -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/