Re: 1000 bugreports in one day, every day

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 6/3/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> While 1000 bugs per day would be nice for my bugzilla points (most
> of the bugs should be duplicates for crashers), there's no way for us
> to manually deal with this number of bugs.

My opinion:
- I doubt it'll hit 1000, even with the changes.
- If repeated crasher bugs become too big of an issue, we can deny the
common ones at the bugzilla level (bkor has done this before -- see
halloween/bugzilla.gnome.org/crashers-map.txt)
- This would probably make it easier for bugsquadders to find a bug
which is a dupe, and the easier that is, the easier it is for us to
recruit help.  We've scaled with bugzilla over the last 7 years or so,
I think we can keep doing so.
- I think the simpler-dup-finder is useful and will make bugsquadders
more efficient (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/dupfinder/simpler-dup-finder.cgi).  It may
also provide us a way to warn users that bugs they are filing are
potentially duplicates before they finish filing them (see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/dupfinder/simpler-dup-finder.cgi?simpleform=true;
we may be able to integrate it into the bug submission process)

So, I'm guessing it's not anywhere near as big of a problem as you
might suspect.  Of course, then again, metacity only gets about half
as many bugs as gnome-panel, and a much smaller percentage are
crashers, so maybe it's easier for me to be brave.  ;-)

> Do we have an estimation of the amount of work required for this?
> Even without adding the debug information, it will be helpful to
> reduce the number of bugs...

Well, there's always Benoni's instrumented builds which did this and
which was used to come up with some pretty good fixes too.  I guess
that's one way of handling this.  But it looks like fer and bkor have
other ideas...