Analysis of 10 years of bugzilla.mozilla.org

[Karl Fogel]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> writes:
>I haven't watched the video, but scanned over the slides and found them
>interesting:
>
>http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/learning-from-10-yrs-of-bugzilla-data/
>
>"Diederik van Liere is a postdoc at Toronto’s Rotman School of Business. His
>passion: finding out whether open source communities actually make software
>better, faster. With this in mind he’s taken an in depth look at 10 years of
>bugzilla.mozilla.org data to look for bug fixing patterns."

I agree -- that slide deck is very comprehensible.  Actually, I found it
easier to digest than the video presentation.  Here are the slides:

  http://commonspace.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mozilla-toronto-office-2010-ms2.pdf

Most interesting graph: correlation between the level of experience of
bug submitter and tendency of that bug to get fixed.

>Is anyone up for doing (or arranging) a similar analysis of Ubuntu bugs?

I'm planning to do something similar, but to do it right -- usefully --
will be non-trivial, so it's going to be after my current coding
rotation on the Launchpad Bugs Team, which ends in a couple of months.
(This rotation is suggesting various better ways to measure anyway.)

-K