Over 40% of Open Source Developers Claim to Fix Bugs in Under 8 Hrs

[newbie2]

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/48103/index.html
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[Jussi Kukkonen]

However, another study has proven that 85% of survey statistics are meaningless. Also, 64% of them have ambiguous survey questions or unscientific survey methods. Amazingly, a whopping 97% of all surveys were shown to prove exactly what the paying customer wanted!

[WildTangent]

However, another study has proven that 85% of survey statistics are meaningless. Also, 64% of them have ambiguous survey questions or unscientific survey methods. Amazingly, a whopping 97% of all surveys were shown to prove exactly what the paying customer wanted!
Let's not forget that 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot ;)

-Wild

[professor_chaos]

And...
3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population.
[Jascha Franklin-Hodge's (joeshmoe@world.std.com)

[qalimas]

Let's not forget that 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot ;)

-Wild


Ohhhhh, nice one :D

[vicks]

And...
3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population.
[Jascha Franklin-Hodge's (joeshmoe@world.std.com)
I have heard that these figures are highly debated among experts.

[moe_syzlak]

Ubuntu developers do not seem to understand that user productivity is inhibited by bugs and not just merely security bugs alone.

For example, Ubuntu 7.10 (also know as Gutsy Gibbon) had this nasty bug where DNS lookups would take over 20 seconds to resolve every time! It affected all applications that used DNS. But Firefox was the most affected, because it would take 10-15 seconds for the Google main page, www.google.com, to load into the browser. This bug was fixed in earlier releases (Feisty Fawn), but it showed up in Gutsy to plague us all again.

Now, don't you think that a college student or web developer using Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 for their tasks would have his or her productivity slowed to a crawl? Yes, it did. Ubuntu needs to change it's current policy of 'only security updates,' otherwise Ubuntu will become an abomination of Linux.

[original_jamingrit]

Ubuntu developers do not seem to understand that user productivity is inhibited by bugs and not just merely security bugs alone.

For example, Ubuntu 7.10 (also know as Gutsy Gibbon) had this nasty bug where DNS lookups would take over 20 seconds to resolve every time! It affected all applications that used DNS. But Firefox was the most affected, because it would take 10-15 seconds for the Google main page, www.google.com, to load into the browser. This bug was fixed in earlier releases (Feisty Fawn), but it showed up in Gutsy to plague us all again.

Now, don't you think that a college student or web developer using Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 for their tasks would have his or her productivity slowed to a crawl? Yes, it did. Ubuntu needs to change it's current policy of 'only security updates,' otherwise Ubuntu will become an abomination of Linux.

I'm not familiar with that DNS problem, but implementing workarounds to fix some features that are buggy for some people would likely cause more problems than it would solve as the workarounds start to pile up on your system.
Whatever one person's problem is, they can look for other Ubuntu users with the same problem and come up with a solution together (that's one of the things that these forums are for). Canonical does a good job of hand-holding for the average user most of the time, but they can't do everything for that user.
Buggy features can be fixed on the next release. Security bugs take priority now. Whatever other problem there is, we can solve it as a community without spamming other users with updates that they may not need.

And besides, the Ubuntu devs still do a lot of work on stuff like that too, it's just not necessarily in the form of patches that are automagically downloaded.