Re: Finding some bug statistics..

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> We don't have a bug tracker, thus there is nothing to gather statistics
>> from. We have a web form that is really just a sequence in a database
>> that generates a bug id, and then remails the whole form to pgsql-bugs.
>>
>> For discussions of why we don't have one, see about a billion mails in
>> the archives over the past 10 years or so :-(
>>
>
> The general policy is a 72 hour bug fix, right?

There is no general policy that I'm aware of.

> Do we have any
> ideas/numbers as to the currently "open" number of bugs (identified but not
> fixed yet)?  That would be just as useful in some regard.

Nope.

> Also, is the sequence only a sequence, or is some of the data held in the
> database (queryable?)  At the very least, I could probably get an idea of
> the bug submit rate by looking at the first bug of each month in the bugs
> archive (or are many of the "bugs" really SPAM)?

It's literally just a sequence. And the messages do get moderated, so
some numbers will be lost as spam.

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