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%.

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