Re: Bugzilla spring cleaning

[Ben Liblit <liblit cs berkeley edu>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> An alternate strategy which is actually making [bug prioritization
> based on frequency of occurrence] possible is the cooperative bug
> isolation project (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~liblit/sampler/).
> Check it out, it's really cool and it has found and fixed some
> "random crashes" already.

Thanks for the endorsement, Elijah.  :-)  We have had several successes 
knocking off "random crashes" in Rhythmbox:

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130788
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137460
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137834

Because of the way the system is designed, bug triage based on frequency 
of occurrence is implicit.  We learn the most, most quickly, about the 
bugs that happen most often.  That can be handy in a world where there 
are always more bugs than engineers.

What we really need now is more users, and more exposure to get those 
users.  I'd be eager to discuss possible collaborations with anyone who 
thinks they can muster a few hundred or a few thousand users.  I get 
data for my dissertation; you get higher quality software.  Win win.