Patterns of Bugs

[Jesse Phillips]

Guilherme Vieira Wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Robert Clipsham
> <robert at octarineparrot.com>wrote:
>
> > If no one else volunteers I guess I could hack something crude together, it
> > would still need people to volunteer bugs for it, as well as sources/proof
> > for each bug (links to changesets/projects that have encountered this issue
> > etc).
> >
> > I loved the idea, but I personally dislike Bugzilla and I wonder if it would
> work for something like that. Anyway a voting system would be mandatory.
> 
> In any case, isn't there something like this already?

I don't see much benefit in building a "crude" prototype for such a system. If it is going to be done the person should really run with the idea; research what tools are out their for managing a system and doing what it takes to make a usable, friendly, and meaningful implementation.

Modifications to analysis tools could be made which would crawl public repositories looking for known patterns (not to claim it is a bug), similar to Ohloh and its crawling tools.