[sldev] sljirastats.com Linden Metrics Report

[Kent Quirk (Q Linden)]

OLPC: 4470 bugs closed, 2368 non-closed (assigned, new, and reopened).  
That's 6838 total, or 35% open bugs.

That's not to say that I think 35% is a good number or anything, just  
that there are other examples.

If you're going to invalidate examples, I think we also have to  
consider the rate of change of the underlying systems. Ghostscript is  
basically an implementation of Postscript. According to Wikipedia, the  
last change to the Postscript spec was in 1997. I *hope* by now it has  
very few bugs!

I think we all recognize that we'd like to get better at accepting  
patches, developing in the open, providing more modular code so that  
others can more readily contribute, and so that we can accept those  
contributions. We're doing a lot in all of those areas, but it takes  
time. I'm not going to sit here and promise the moon, or even list all  
of our initiatives. I recognize that the proof is in our actions, so  
I'll shut up and ask you to just watch us...and please try also to  
notice the good stuff when it happens.

	Q


On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Jason Giglio wrote:
> Rob Lanphier wrote:
>> Because anyone can file issues, and you can't get the people who
>> disagree about whether an issue is really an issue into the same room
>> and lock them there until they agree on a resolution.  With  
>> proprietary
>> software you can.
>>
>> It's also about what I've observed:
>>
>> Linux kernel.  1298 open issues out of 10460 since the tracker was  
>> set
>> up in late 2002:
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
>
> This sounds like a decent ratio, about 12%.
>
> Keep in mind my 8+ bugs growth per day number is *only bugs*.  I do  
> not
> count feature requests in that number.
>
>> Firefox:  Query timed out before I could get a result:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
>
> I'm not sure Firefox is a good example.  They aren't exactly model
> citizens in the open source world.
>
>> MediaWiki:  2869 open issues out of 13768 created since the tracker  
>> was
>> created in mid 2004.  Issues I've personally been watching have sat  
>> open
>> for years:
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
>
> This is about 20%,
>
> And I hate to keep bringing them up as my "good example", but
> Ghostscript is about 500,000 lines of code, which puts them in the  
> same
> ballpark as say, just the SL client.
>
> They have 369 open bugs out of 4015 total filed, slightly under 10%,
> rillian reports they do have a very slightly positive open bug  
> growth rate.
>
> Along with your data, it looks like this 10% open ratio for good
> projects keeps coming up.
>
> Linden lab is running 2717 out of 7706 across all projects, or 35%  
> open.
>  Even your examples were better than this.
>