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Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:22:57 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Bosko Radivojevic <bosko.radivojevic@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of bugs - statistics Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:51:35AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> Maybe some other data: >> * The incoming rate of ACPI bugs has been pretty much flat the last 3 >> years, while the number of Linux (and ACPI) users has grown >> significantly. The number of unfixed bugs has more than halved, from >> over 200 to well below 100. >> * The SCSI maintainer also reports that he sees flat to declining bug >> rates; again with the increase in Linux user base that is a good sign > > Andrew sees and handles the majority of incoming bug reports. > Ask him whether he agress with this. > > And ALSA alone has 2000 open bug reports, which makes the open ACPI or > SCSI bug numbers relatively irrelevant in any "number of bugs" > statistics. Central facilities like ACPI and SCSI having relatively few [and according to Arjan a decreasing number of] reported unfixed bugs is... irrelevant? -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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