Blake Ross wrote: > > Fact: you are terribly misinformed. > > The number of bugs has skyrocketed over the years because the number of > people reporting them has skyrocketed over the years, and because we > have more features and components than we used to. Statistics > corroborate this. You seem to be suggesting that developers get worse > over time and start creating more bugs per checkin, which doesn't make > any sense.
A certain anti-news/FUD site relating to Mozilla uses similarly fuzzy math, which has been thoroughly dispelled at MozillaNews.org in the "Lies, Damned Lies, and MozillaQuest" article, located here: http://www.mozillanews.org/index.php3?article=60 You are 100% right. In fact, I call it Bugzilla Inflation, and go into detail in that article under the Bugzilla Inflation and Bugzilla Facts sections. thanks go to Asa for helping me compile those numbers, too. -- jesus X [ Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism. ] email [ jesusx @ who.net ] web [ http://www.mozillanews.org ] tag [ The Universe: It's everywhere you want to be. ] warning [ "I hate cats. You never know if they're dead." - E. Schrodinger ]
