Mark Shuttleworth, leader of Ubuntu distribution organization Canonical, writes that his flavor of Linux receives many more reports of software bugs than other open source efforts - - for a variety of reasons, not all because the Ubuntu community's work is faulty.
The numbers he presents, though, are interesting:
"In the month of April 2008, I found the following bug counts for large FLOSS projects:
Upstreams (bug reports):
Mozilla 5,334
OpenOffice 1,076
Gnome 5,364
KDE 1,335
Total: 13,109
Distributions:
Ubuntu 13,064
Debian 5,103
"With hindsight, April was possibly a bad choice, because it was an Ubuntu release month so there's usually a small spike in the number of bugs filed. It would be interesting to see the stats for other distributions, and projects, over a full year. But the general picture is clear - within our family of distributions, Ubuntu carries the brunt of the load w.r.t. bug tracking, triage and patch management - not only for our users, but for a broad cross-section of the open source stack."
Shuttleworth's big request: A single, cross-distribution tool that can track bug reports and bug fixes across the board, and across the stack, so that the work of improving open source software becomes more efficient.
http://www.crn.com/software/208801277?cid=ChannelWebCompleteFeed
Friday, 27 June 2008
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