D's Greatest Bugbear

[Iain Buclaw]

On 18 December 2012 21:54, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 21:36:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/12 5:48 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>>> Bearophile has just entered his 1000th bug report into Bugzilla.
>>> This is more than the three next most prolific contributers, combined.
>>>
>>> The top ten bug reporters are (courtesy of Deskzilla):
>>>
>>> 1002 Bearophile
>>>
>>> 315 Andrej Mitrovic
>>> 308 Don Clugston
>>> 282 David Simcha
>>>
>>> 193 Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> 185 Jonathon M Davis
>>> 176 Kenji Hara
>>>
>>> 156 Timon Gehr
>>> 155 Thomas Kühne
>>> 141 Max Samukha
>>> -----------
>>> There are only 9 others who have reported 100 bugs or more,
>>> and only another 19 who have reported 50 or more.
>>>
>>> So, if you are wondering why the number of open bugs has continued
>>> to climb despite a massive increase in the rate of bugfixing, now you
>>> know. What it really means is that we're getting a lot of bugs being
>>> reported, which normally wouldn't be found for a couple of years.
>>>
>>> Congratulations, Bugbear!
>>>
>>
>> Grats! Next step: start working on pull request. I have the feeling once
>> bearophile starts contributing code, there'll be another change of phase in
>> the bug dynamics!
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> I tried to convince him on IRC to start contributing code not too long
> ago, arguing that he's a better programmer than I am and even I've gotten a
> bug fix or two in.  He says he's not as competent as he sounds which is
> patently absurd. He'll be an even bigger asset to D than he is already once
> he decides to start sending pull requests.
>
> BA
>

I only worry that if he does start contributing, he'll instead spend all
his time finding bugs in C++. :o)

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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