Re: Recreating bug histories from log files

Actually my dream in life is to do reports based on bug lifespan (i.e.
time between a bug was filed till it was closed) -- I'm interested in
how this number varies with bug severity, who filed it, yada yada. The
problem is there is no good way to measure this time.

I'm a little lost on what the different files do -- do mboxes exist
for all bugs? I've been relying on the log/summary files assuming that
everything I need to find should be there -- do you have a better
idea?

Abhishek

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Olivier Berger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 11:27 -0400, Abhishek a écrit :
>> Hola Folks,
>>
>> My dream in life at this point in time is to be able to recreate a bug
>> modification history from the log / report / summary files.
>> Something like what bugzilla does --
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_activity.cgi?id=12
>>
>
> What exactly are you trying to achieve... I guess if it's your dream in
> life, then you probably have a greater goal than just reconstructing a
> bug's history.
>
>> >From what I understand the way debbugs logs things has changed. These
>> are my questions:
>>
>> a) what seems like the best way to do this? (i.e. what string patterns
>> I should be looking for)
>
> Unless that's already obvious, I guess the reference information about
> bugs should be found in the mbox of the bug, as commands to debbugs are
> issued by email.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
>
> P.S.: if it's related to SD, yes, that's quite interesting ! ;-)
> --
> Olivier BERGER <[email protected]>
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> Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
> Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
>
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