
h.m.brand at xs4all
Jan 13, 2006, 12:54 PM
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:35:54 -0600, Steve Peters <steve [at] fisharerojo> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:13:32PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:42:57AM -0800, Robert Spier wrote: > > > > > Total Issues > > > > > > Open Tickets: 1514 > > > > We're holding steady around 1500 open tickets aren't we? > > Is there trend in the types of old bugs that we're able to close? > > (for some value of "we" that's almost exclusively called "Steve Peters" - > > thanks) Yes, a lot of thanks. > > And the type of new bugs that stay open to maintain our balance at 1500? > > The trend for new bugs that tend to stay open include mainly, in no > particular order, Unicode-related problems, platform-specific problems, > threading problems, and regular expression problems. > > For older bugs, there are no specific pattern for what can be closed. > Its usually a matter of testing the problems with maint and blead. I > have plans to start walking through the tickets again soon and plan > on added tests cases for the confirmed bugs as I go through. > > There are a *lot* of tickets opened in the past related to building > Perl on AIX which appear to be mainly closable, but I have no way to > confirm this. I might, and Campo might be pingable again too by now > If some kind soul would like to help with this, I'd > be happy to provide ticket numbers for testing with. And what to test. AIX is not my fav platform to travel around on in dark corners. > The other three largest categories of open tickets are: recursion in > the regexp engine eating up the stack; /?{...}/ related problems > (I'm still waiting for Duke Nuke 'Em Forver); and, bugs opened by > those who are unusually hard on Perl (you know who you are). -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: smokers-reports [at] perl, perl-qa [at] perl
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