Good News, Bad News

[ralphmelton]

Good news: I had six hours of really strong productivity today.

Bad news: those six hours started at 4pm.

Good news: I fixed a dozen bugs or so.

Bad news: I looked at the change in the size of my bug list from when I last got my list sometime last week. Before updating the list, I had 199 bugs on my list; after making all those fixes and updating, I had 202.

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And now it's time to sing

[sethcohen.livejournal.com]

One hundred hairy bugs in the code
One hundred hairy bugs
Fix one bug, compile it again, 101 hairy bugs.
Repeat until BUGS = 0

[cellio]

Number is only one measure of a bug list. Does the picture look any better if you consider severity, difficulty, or time to fix?

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

At that many bugs, it's hard to get a feeling for how severe and difficult they are en masse.

I still feel pretty good about getting that many bugs off of my plate, mind you.

[cellio]

I'm currently in a mode where I generate bug reports for other people more quickly than I fix my own. Fortunately, others are not doing the same thing simultaneously. :-)