cullmann/cullmann.io
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Over 20 years of bug squashing

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Cullmann 2024-12-15 20:23:40 +01:00
parent 7c7326175e
commit 6d8af49ae7
No known key found for this signature in database
2 changed files with 32 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

BIN
content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/images/kate-bug-statistics.png Normal file
View file

Binary file not shown.
Side by side

After

Width:  |  Height:  |  Size: 6.1 KiB

32
content/posts/over-20-years-of-bug-squashing/index.md Normal file
View file

@ -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.