diff --git a/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/images/kate-bug-statistics.png b/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/images/kate-bug-statistics.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59c5eae Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/images/kate-bug-statistics.png differ diff --git a/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/index.md b/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8010b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "Over 20 years of bug squashing" +date: 2024-12-15T20:23:00+02:00 +draft: false +categories: [kde] +tags: [kde] +url: /posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/ +author: "Christoph Cullmann" +resources: + - name: "featured-image-preview" + src: "images/kate-bug-statistics.png" +--- + +The open source project I work on for the longest time is [KDE](https://www.kde.org) and there more specific [Kate](https://kate-editor.org). + +This means I look at user bug reports for over 20 years now. + +The statistics tell me our team got more than 9000 bugs since around 2001 (just for Kate, this excludes the libraries like KTextEditor that we maintain, too). + +![Kate Bug Statistics](/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/images/kate-bug-statistics.png "Kate Bug Statistics") + +That is a bit more than one bug per day for over two decades. + +And as the statistics show, especially in the last years we were able to keep the open bug count down, that means we fixed a lot of them. + +Given we are a small team, I think that is a nice achievement. + +We not just survived over 20 years, we are still alive and kicking and not just a still compiling zombie project. + +Thanks a lot to [all people](https://kate-editor.org/the-team/) that are contributing to this success! + +Let's keep this up in the next year and the ones following.