Rob Weir wrote on Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 19:18:13 -0400: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Rob speaketh, > >> > >> ... let's admit that almost all of the 500,000 openoffice.org > >> addresses are unused or were created by spammers and have zero > >> relevancy to the project. > >> > >> So, what is "almost all" of 500,000, and how can it be determined? How > >> many > >> are left? > >> > > > > If you run a report on the BZ instance you see only 8700 or so unique > > ID's have ever been used for submitting defects. So 83% of the > > 500,000 ID's are irrelevant from the perspective of BZ. Maybe the > > remaining 420,000 users are furiously editing the wiki, but somehow I > > doubt that as well. > > > > It was reported off list that my calculation was in error. I lost a > digit some place. 8746 accounts have submitted issues in Bugzilla. > So given the claimed 500,000 openoffice.org email addresses that have > been assigned, that means that 99.99% of them are not involved in > reporting defects in BZ. I know that the figure 99.99% sounds like > hyperbole, but do the math yourself. >
I did. 98.25%.
