JTK wrote: > AH! So *THE LORD* is the one behind that article! Wonderful! Why no > attribution, or did I just miss it?
You just missed it. It's at the top. > So you mean to say that: > N_bugs_in_bugzilla = A * N_registered_bugzilla_users > for some suitable A? A being the number of valid bugs on ALL products, plus dupes, INVALIDs, and RFEs, yes. The total number will be larger in proportion to the total number of bug reporters. Especially on bug that are high profile. 2 years ago, you could expect to see maybe 20 to 30 dupes of a high profile bug, while today, it's easy to see up to a hundred dupes of a high profile bug. That will drive up the total number of bug reports, while the number of VALID bugs stays the same. Same thing with RFEs. > All > it does then is track entries made by registered users, which may in > fact be bugs in Mozilla, or bugs in other products, or recipies, or > porn, or maybe they're just using it as a substitute for NNTP or email, > whatever. As a matter of fact, yes. It does more than that, there ar attachment features, and report querrying functions, etc. but the user can use the system in ways it was not intended. Way way back, there were even a couple of bugs that were there just to remind someone to do something. I remember one guy entered a bug so he'd remember to bring something with him to work from his car. Some bugs are nothing more than metabugs, they contain a list of related bugs (tracking is the component they're under). Some bugs are for Mozilla, some are for Bugzilla, some are for mozilla.org, etc. that's what the Product entry is for. > BTW: I know you won't take this for what it's worth, but I read both > articles in their entirety. While yours is written better, his is more > factually correct and less biased. Actually, it's not. I certainly am biased, and make no apologies for it, but his is NOT more factually based. -- 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 ]
