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Dear Eclipse developers, My name is Jan Vlegels and i am a researcher at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Currently i'm investigating existing links between the version control system (CVS) and the bug-reporting system (bugzilla) for several projects (one of them is eclipse) Oftentimes researchers assume that developers refer in the commit messages of the CVS to the bug they fixed by mentioning its bug-report id number (f.e. "fixed bug 4512"). We all know that this is not always the case, due to the fact that the CVS does not "enforce" this behaviour and so the reliability of this heuristic depends on the project's internal directives and the discipline of the developers. What i'm doing is trying to estimate the reliability of this heuristic, based on a case study in several projects. Therefore I need to have the CVS and Bugzilla data from the projects in my case study. Concerning Eclipse, I have a problem with the bugzilla data. At a Software Engineering Conference (see http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2007/challenge/) I got the bug report information for bugs 1 through 162655. Because i also need the Bug Activity tables I downloaded those from https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ . However, when I checked the completeness of the gathered data, i encountered a problem: There are some bugs (not that much) about which https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/ says that they do not exist (f.e. bug 4208). However, I got their bug reports at the Software Engineering Conference... At the bottom of this mail, you find the bug report id's of the "problematic" bugs. True, it concerns of only a few bugs so it's not fundamental to proceed with my research, but it would be nice to have a complete data-set. So, can anyone provide me the activity logs of the bugs that "don't exist" anymore, but clearly have existed before? Thank you very much for your help! Jan Vlegels Lab On Reengineering Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Antwerp Office location: CMI - G.3.04 Office phone: +32 3 265 37 81 E-mail: jan.vlegels@xxxxxxxx 3139 3740 4208 4284 4350 4352 4364 4377 4390 4918 4920 4993 5027 5042 5055 5086 5133 5207 5229 5247 5299 5315 5319 5338 |