Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Mark Thomas
Paul Luo Li wrote: Thank you very much for your response. By field defect I mean a bug in the Bug Database. I was wondering if you think predictions at the time of release of the number of field defects in each month after release can help: This is going to be highly dependant on what

Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hmm, personally I think it's more useable for users as for developers. I strongly doubt that the commiters will change anything in the way they work, probably simple because they do their best right now. But a user can 'read' from the graph which minor version is actually suitable for major

RE: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions? Personally I think that the result will be 16 :-) I thought the answer was 42... - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL

Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Rosenberg
the 16 seems to be the magic number when the people start upgrading. happened lately to us too, with 5.5.16 :-) but i alos heard of others... regards leon On 10/26/06, Caldarale, Charles R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What would you do

RE: [OT] What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions? the 16 seems to be the magic number when the people start upgrading. The 42 was a joke ... if you're not familiar with the allusion, look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [OT] What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Rosenberg
because they sucked at other questions badly :-) regards Leon On 10/26/06, Caldarale, Charles R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions? the 16 seems to be the magic number when the people start

Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-24 Thread Martin Gainty
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: What would you do with field defect rate predictions? Hi I have been examining Tomcat bugs and have been looking for ways of predicting the field defect rate, that is, predicting at the time of release the number of field defects in each time

RE: What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Luo Li
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:38 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: What would you do with field defect rate predictions? Good Morning Paul- from what I see I would interpret a greater initial defect rate with open source offerings vs commercial (OS

What would you do with field defect rate predictions?

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Luo Li
Hi I have been examining Tomcat bugs and have been looking for ways of predicting the field defect rate, that is, predicting at the time of release the number of field defects in each time interval after the release. I am brainstorming possible applications for this research. I was wondering