[CREATE] Inkscape questions

[Gregory Pittman]

On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> On Sunday 19 June 2011, Yuval Levy wrote:
>>>> April 2008: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/135
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> June 2011: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape
>>>>
>>>> (634 new, 3083 open) ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see a discrepancy.  The first report is not about open vs closed
>>> bugs, it's about new vs "triaged" bugs - i.e. whether or not the bugs
>>> have been categorised and identified as bugs.
>>
>> In 2008 the project went from 1800+ new to about 100 new.  If this was just
>> a  consequence of the tool used (as implied in the first article), going
>> back up to 634 new needs an explanation.
> Or maybe the first link is wrong, and it is not the tool that is the reason of
> the drop... Mark Shuttleworth is pursuing an agenda, and his blog is all about
> pushing his agenda.
>
> In case of launchpad, the agenda is that everybody should use it and drop
> whatever else they are using. In light of that, it is no surprise that he
> would take such a graph and show to the world how launchpad is efficient, even
> if the reallity is different and the inkscape team just cleaned up their bug
> database. Which is something they could have done in their previous bug
> reporting tool, but in my experience, such cleaning happen when there is a big
> momentum in the community such as a new release or a new tool.
>
This was my thought also. There isn't a good match between what is shown 
on this graph and the new data Yuv points to. One would have to 
resurrect the data that went into that old graph and try to match it up.
As I looked down the details of the 635 new bugs, I see that only a 
fraction are labeled as new bugs, another fraction are feature requests, 
and a third are indeterminate.

Greg