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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  2 de diciembre a las 13:03 me escribiste:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>> Walter Bright, el  2 de diciembre a las 12:23 me escribiste:
>>>> l8night wrote:
>>>>> Too many bugs - no way my superiors allow some program with that bug list
>>>> Here's the gcc bug list with 5,442 open issues:
>>>>
>>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=&content=
>>>>
>>>> and the d bug list with 1,403 open issues:
>>>>
>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Bug+Number&remtype=asdefault&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
>>> I'd like to compare the user base and calculate the bugs/users ratio.
>>> I guess GCC's would be orders of magnitude smaller.
>> I haven't heard of bug/user ratio (but then I know next to nothing
>> about such metrics). Probably you want to take the bugs * users
>> product. One bug affects more users in a popular product.
> 
> You are asuming all bugs affect all users, which is far from reality.

There would be a normalization constant, but as far as I know I need to 
be convinced that bugs/user is of any more relevance than bugs * user.

Andrei