Hi. Some days ago Christian reported[0] about #690000 with the feeling that bug report numbers in Debian were declining, which Don’s post[1] later seemingly confirmed. I wondered myself whether this is a problem for Debian and if so, what we can do against it? First declining bug numbers are not necessarily a problem, because it could just mean that we're getting better and better, or that more and more upstream issues are reported upstream (which would be a good thing IMHO), or that the maintainers already catch many problems themselves. On the other hand, some worries are there that this could imply some decline in Debian itself. Well I still think Debian is the best distro out there for most (if not all cases), even though I'd like to see it putting more emphasis on security. But, admittedly me not being the biggest *buntu fan (diplomatically said), things like [2] disturb me quite a lot. Gives me somehow the feeling as if it was an invitation to leave Debian towards *buntu. Anyway,... that might be another reason for a decline (if there is any),... being slowly assimilated by *buntu (and even helping with that) Another reason could be, that people have problems with the BTS. Don't get me wrong, I personally like it a lot... and I wouldn't want to have e.g. launchpad (if at all,... I'm quite a bugzilla fan)... but especially for end-users BTS might be tricky to use and I know even some fellow computer scientists which complained about it (and asked whether there was a more bugzilla-ish web interface or so). Well.. I'm curious what other people think. :) Cheers, Chris. [0] http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/10/09#690000 [1] http://www.donarmstrong.com/posts/bug_reporting_rate/ [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2012/10/msg00539.html
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