That's what you think when reading the almost weekly statistics in the Gentoo Newsletter (GWN). One notices that a good amount of bugs is filed every week...but less than that are closed. So one could assume our number of bugs is ever increasing until Bugzilla explodes or the whole distribution is ruined by its bug-ladden ebuilds/applications. So I went through all old GWNs and made a nice graphic out of the total number of open bugs. The data seem to be accurate (currently, I did not check older states) as my own tests with www-client/pybugz showed, so I assume the number of closed/filed bugs must be somehow incorrect.
The diagram is read from right to left [edit: Corrected the order, so you can start at the left now], year numbers indicate the beginning of a new year, distances between data points are equal although the time between two of them might be larger or smaller.
Interpretation: I cannot tell when architecture teams came into effect, but I think they had a real impact on number of bugs, so maybe someone can tell me the rough date. From the beginning we have a steady rise in the number of bugs, with some short-enduring declines, until the late summer of 2006. From there on, less open bugs can be found, while it stays on a constant level for some time now, near 10,000. In the beginning the interest in Gentoo was huge and many people were attracted to it, which explains the first part. Why we have reached a maximum and why it has gone down a bit, I don't know. But I do not think it has to do with diminishing quality or less interest/users. Of course you may comment on it (yes this entry has a comment function, just click on the title if you are on Planet Gentoo). The guess I like best is: Me has become a dev about the time when the number of open bugs started to go down. :-)
People saying »Wow, 10,000 bugs!«, 2500 of them are still maintainer-wanted, so they are no »real« bugs. Others are just obsolete but noone cared to close them. And by the way...could someone do commit and bug closing statistics? I've seen them on Planet before, I think.
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