{"id":22,"date":"2007-01-12T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:14:34","slug":"a-million-fedora-users-but-how-many-file-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/01\/12\/a-million-fedora-users-but-how-many-file-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"A million Fedora users, but how many file bugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some estimates put the number of people using Fedora Core 6 at <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/Statistics\">a million<\/a>.  So why is it that when I encounter reasonably obvious bugs, I very often tend to the the first person to have filed a bug about it?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/\">Bugzilla<\/a> reveals that 3,035 bugs have been reported against Fedora Core 6.  I have to believe there are more bugs than that in Fedora Core 6, and surely each one of those million Fedora users out there has spotted at least one worth telling someone about.  They may even have moaned about it to whoever was across from them or found a work-around.  But did they file a bug report?  To me the answer is obvious: in the majority of cases they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at it further, even though there are over 3,000 bugs reported against Fedora Core 6 I can see that no more than 1,682 people are reponsible for reporting them.  That is, on average each person reported a couple of bugs.<\/p>\n<p>A million users, but only 1,682 of them ran into bugs?<\/p>\n<p>Now I know that some people will not be sufficiently technically-minded to report a useful bug, and that some bugs get discussed on the mailing lists instead of Bugzilla.  Can that really explain it all?<\/p>\n<p>So, if you run Fedora Core 6, and you haven&#8217;t filed a bug yet &#8212; and if, of course, you&#8217;re still reading &#8212; why not take a moment to remember that bug you ran into.  The one that caused you extra work so you never got around to telling anybody once you found a work-around.  Or the one that wasn&#8217;t quite annoying enough for you to tell anyone about.<\/p>\n<p>If you reported it in <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/\">Bugzilla<\/a>, us developers would know to fix it, and everyone would benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some estimates put the number of people using Fedora Core 6 at a million. 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