Subject: Bugs that are Bad
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 12 2001 - 11:00:27 CDT
I've spent a good bit of time this morning with Bugzilla, and I have
some potentially interesting facts to report.
Currently, we have 8 bugs marked 'dataloss'. These are the worst kind
of bugs, they actually destroy people's work. They are:
665 1399 1437 1445 1467 1533 1689 2090
1 of these is still in the SUBMITTED state.
We have 44 bugs marked 'crash'. They are:
484 654 773 774 804 867 915 970 974 977 1066 1101 1104 1161 1243 1253
1319 1397 1537 1685 1709 1726 1768 1778 1793 1808 1819 1859 1869 1885
1893 1932 1958 1964 1965 1971 2005 2009 2015 2017 2037 2069 2073 2100
15 of these are still in the SUBMITTED state.
We have 25 bugs marked 'assert. They are:
595 773 1104 1111 1118 1123 1133 1161 1298 1364 1406 1445 1503 1538
1652 1657 1686 1726 1741 1814 1843 1919 1958 1965 2088
3 of these are still in the submitted state. Some of these overlap
with those marked crash.
These lists should be complete, at the moment, since I just went
through and added keywords where neccessary.
This is all out of 157 SUBMITTED bugs and 363 OPEN bugs.
It seems clear to me that all the bugs marked 'dataloss' or 'crash'
have to be fixed for 1.0. That's about 10% of the bug count
currently. Therefore, to have a releaseable AbiWord by New Years
means decreasing that count about 1 per day. This is not including
other bugs we would like to fix.
Personally, I think this argues for a feature freeze sooner rather
than later. But draw your own conclusions.
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