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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 4 21:34:54 CEST 2007

On 4/4/07, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> 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. 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. 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.

I am putting way too much effort into my PhD if this kind of stuff can get me a degree. =)

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