If you are interested in statistics about the GIMP bugs, here are a few links that you should look at. Consider adding these to your bookmarks if you want to see what is happening with Bugzilla without having to look at the detailled list of bugs every day.

* Most frequently reported bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/product-mostfrequent.cgi?product=GIMP

Displays the bugs that have been reported the most frequently, by counting the number of duplicates. One could say that it also shows the bugs for which the reporters are the least careful because they should have checked for duplicates before submitting their bugs, but this is interesting anyway.

* Bug count by severity or priority:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/product-target-report.cgi?product=GIMP

Actually, this shows the bug counts by developer and by severity or priority, but so far we have left almost all bugs assigned to the default owner "bugs@gimp.org", which means that nobody (or everybody) is responsible for them. Although the breakdown by developer is meaningless, the total (last row of each table) gives a good overview of how many bugs are still open. Clicking on any number gives you the details.

* Bugs that are UNCONFIRMED:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/unconfirmed-bugs.cgi http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GIMP&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED

The first link lists several products. Scroll down to find the GIMP bugs. The second link gives a full list of all unconfirmed GIMP bugs. As you can see from the current report, we have 42 unconfirmed bugs. If you take a closer look, you will discover that many of them are platform-specific bugs (usually for Windows) or bugs that are a specific to one device (drawing tablet or graphics card) that is not used by many developers. So we need more Windows users or users of these special devices who could spend some of their time trying to reproduce the bugs and confirming them. Fixing them would be even better, but even someone without coding skills could help to confirm the bugs.

* Bugs that are NEEDINFO and for which some new info has been reported:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/needinfo-updated.cgi?product=GIMP

The bugs in NEEDINFO state are those for which the developers have requested additional information from the reporter (and not the other way round, as some reporters seem to think!). If some new information has been reported since the bug got the NEEDINFO status, the bug report will show up in that list. If the new information is enough to confirm the bug, then it can get the status NEW or ASSIGNED.

* Weekly summary:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/weekly-bug-summary.cgi

As mentioned in the previous messages, this shows a summary of all products tracked by Bugzillam, including the GIMP. We should try to be as low as possible in this list... 280 open bugs is too much!

* Several useful links for GIMP bugs:

http://www.gimp.org/devel_ver.html

At the bottom of this GIMP page, I have added a table with several links that give you some pre-made Bugzilla queries. You can get the list of all open bugs in the stable versions, the list of enhancement proposals, etc.

-Raphaël