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Re: How to measure stability?



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On 09/16/06 17:17, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:06:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 09/16/06 16:51, Bruno Buys wrote:
>>>     Is there any way to objectively measure stability among debian
>>> flavours? I mean, does anybody know of a webpage or project or something
>>> to build statistics on bug reports? I'm asking this because every now
>>> and then we have threads asking how much unstable unstable is, and the
>>> replies are always like 'depends', or 'your mileage may vary' and such.
>>>     If a there's a good soul somewhere keeping statistics of broken
>>> stuff and bugs grouped by packages and flavours, I'd  REALLY like to see it.
>> The problem with measuring stability is that AFAICT, the BTS only
>> tracks bugs by package name, not by version or branch.
>>
> 
> Versioning was added to debbugs shortly after the Sarge release.

Hmmm, I thought I read a thread on d-devel earlier this month about
the difficulties determining whether an rc bug was applicable only
Stable, but not to Testing/Sid.  :\

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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