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Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers



On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:51:50AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 09:15 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > I believe the script is incorrect. It does not count ubuntu bugs that
> > gets fixed in debian, without ever being referenced in debian BTS...
> Well but it's up to interpretation, whether that wouldn't be a worrying
> sign, too. I mean that bugs are fixed rather via Ubuntu.

I wonder: did upstream developers start to worry when the number of bugs
report they received *directly* started to decrease, due to Debian
distributing their software? (Note: that started to happen "a few" years
ago, like 15-20 :-)) They probably did worry, yes. But as long as Debian
play it right with them, by triaging/forwarding bug reports to them as
needed, no harm is done. In fact, the resulting ecosystem probably
brings *more* users and bug report to them than before, albeit now they
are mediated. Looks like the same situation.

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