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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Some quick Bugzilla statistics

From: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:02:21 -0500
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Christopher Maynard
<Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bill Meier <wmeier@...> writes:
>
>> On 1/5/2013 1:30 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
>> > I've been playing with some of the bugzilla statistics tools recently,
>> > and I am pleased to discover that despite a record number of reported
>> > bugs in 2012, we managed to shrink the backlog by 26 bugs.
>> >
>> > My raw data:
>> >
>> > Year - Created - Resolved
>> > 2012 - 1449 - 1475
>> > 2011 - 1165 - 1104
>> > 2010 - 1170 - 1239
>> > 2009 - 1201 - 1016
>> > 2008 - 1014 - 935
>> > 2007 - 863 - 805
>> >
>> > (If someone with greated bugzilla-foo wants to provide more accurate
>> > numbers please feel free).
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Evan
>>
>> On that note: Another interesting stat: A record year for commits
>>
>> Commits to svn trunk
>>
>> 1998       136
>> 1999      1247
>> 2000      1383
>> 2001      1652
>> 2002      2332
>> 2003      2660
>> 2004      3262
>> 2005      3945
>> 2006      3138
>> 2007      3661
>> 2008      3043
>> 2009      4011
>> 2010      3475
>> 2011      4602
>> 2012      5851
>>
>> Bill
>
> On that note: Another interesting stat: A record low for messages posted to both
> the wireshark-users and wireshark-dev mailing lists.  I'm not sure what to make
> of that, but I'm guessing that the drop is at least somewhat due to users and
> developers asking questions on ask.wireshark.org instead of through the mailing
> lists.  Hopefully it's not indicative of something else, such as a declining
> interest in Wireshark.
>
> YEAR      -users      -dev      -commits      -bugs      -announce
> 2012      946         2671      8211          10457      22
> 2011      1406        4017      5417          8626       25
> 2010      2911        3918      4004          7833       22
> 2009      2974        4178      4375          6273       17
> 2008      3339        3939      3260          6072       14
> 2007      2529        5667      3796          4759       11
> 2006      1255        2969      2073          1563       9
>
> Any ask.wireshark.org stats?

None that appear to be publicly accessible.

For what it's worth, ask.wireshark.org went online in September 2010,
which does line up with the drop in volume on -users and -dev.

Tangentially, is it perhaps worth closing -users in order to
consolidate all support into the ask site?

Evan

> - Chris
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