[Python-Dev] A Survey on Defect Management Practices in Free/Open Source Software (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Apr 4 15:57:52 CEST 2007

A.M. Kuchling wrote:

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:07:18PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:

This one was at least personally addressed (well, to "Python Contributors"), which is a step ahead of most of them. What gets me is that such surveys are invalid because the respondents aren't randomly selected -- they're the people who care enough to answer.

Or the people who are getting so pissed off with these surveys that they are willing to spend the time to mess up the results.

It would be more efficient and reliable to just go look at a

sampling of project web sites and look at their bug trackers, but that requires effort from the student. I remember those days ...

Recently I was interviewing a student who worked on a project that had instrumented an IDE to record every operation (editing, saving, etc.) in a database. I asked "so what did you learn from this data?", and was told that no one has analyzed it; they're just accumulating the data. It's stamp collecting as computer science. > --amk, who save his files every 87.4 seconds and types a character every 2.3sec. -- steve, who hits backspace every 1.6 seconds and still makes loads of typos

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