Christian Perrier: Number of bugs reported in Debian per year
This week-end, among other things, I played a little to get
the number of bugs reported overs years in the Debian BTS.
Here are the results:
2007: 53337 2006: 59665 2005: 57436 2004: 62327 2003: 50836 2002: 47618 2001: 46289 2000: 27181 1999: 22448 1998: 15002 1997: 9987 1996: 4205 1995: 2158 First bug for each year: 2008: 458489 Petter Reinholdtsen -> sysqrd Closed (in unstable) 2007: 405152 Martin-Eric Racine -> myspell-lv Closed 2006: 345487 Erich Schubert -> lintian Opened 2005: 288051 Nick Sillik -> gstreamer-misc Closed 2004: 225724 Peter van Rossum -> mldonkey-server Closed 2003: 174888 Chris Garguzi -> hotkeys Closed 2002: 127270 root@ttimo.net ->libapache-mod-auth-pam Closed 2001: 80981 William Steve Applegate -> php4 Closed 2000: 53800 Hamish Moffatt -> sattrack Closed 1999: 31352 Richard Stallman -> dselect Opened LOOK THIS ONE 1998: 16350 Joey Hess -> xbase-clients Closed 1997: 6363 Andreas Jellinghaus -> mgetty-fax Closed 1996: 2158 Ian Jackson -> ncurses3.0 Closed 1995: 563 Ian Jackson -> tar ClosedA few interesting things there:
- apparently the rate is now staging between 50,000 and 60,000 per year
- stats are less precise for the early years as many bugs are no more in the BTS (apparently that stops in 1999)
- I can't find the date where the Debian BTS was launched (-devel archives go back to July 1995 only)
- It bringed me the silly idea to check what are the oldest still opened bugs...next stupid blog entry, then !