Volunteer for research project?

[Maxim Fomin]

On Friday, 22 February 2013 at 06:02:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I would think he's referring to issues that are filed in the 
> bugtracker.
> Obviously, we have no way of knowing if a code change broke 
> something if
> nobody found any bug afterwards!

Yes, it is obvious that he refers to bugzilla issues.

> So I'm thinking it's probably a matter of going through the 
> regression
> bugs in the bugtracker, and making test cases to reproduce 
> them, and
> then use git bisect to figure out which commit introduced the 
> problem.
>
>
> T

This is also obvious. The question is what to do with such 
information next, how to analyze it and interpret the results.

For example http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9406 
(there is commit which introduced regression). What can you infer 
from fixed regressions  
(http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_severity=regression&bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED) 
which can be useful in fighting against non-closed ones?

P.S. There is something wrong either with forum or with your 
answering. The discussion in mailbox is single piece, but in 
forum it is splitted into two threads. Posting message in one 
thread in answering to reply in another is strange. Do you use 
email for answering or forum?