Re: Behavior Trends in Nautilus and other Desktop Apps

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Wait till we switched to GIO and GVFS in Nautilus.. that should
introduce all kinds of fun.

sri

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:55 -0500, Ben Liblit wrote:
> Karsten Br�elmann wrote:
> > Any Bugsquad member and occasional bugzilla triager knows that
> > [Nautilus 2.14 was buggier than 2.16 or 2.18]. ;)
> 
> Ah, OK.  I guess a 10% crash rate is hard to miss when you spend lots of 
> your time triaging bug reports.  :-)
> 
> Jason Fletchall and I didn't know that Nautilus 2.14 had a bad 
> reputation when we were producing this data, though it's pretty 
> unmistakable when you look at the plots.  I'm glad to hear that our 
> empirical data agrees with your informal sense of things.  That's one 
> thing I hope we can contribute: empirical evidence to support/refute 
> developers' intuitions about how apps are behaving in the field.
> 
> We welcome suggestions if you know of any other historical trends we 
> should look at.  We've actually got about four years' worth of data, 
> though most of our current plots don't go back that far.  And we can 
> look into much more than just crash rates, since CBI instruments *lots* 
> of different runtime code behaviors.
> 
> So ... what should we look at next?
> 
> -- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy
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Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>