Jan,
I’m not best qualified to answer your question since it
addresses administration of bugs.eclipse.org, but I’ve been involved with
similar studies and am guessing that you will find it easiest to make an
exception for how you handle the missing bugs. They’re a tiny part
of the sample, and they were probably deleted for a reason (e.g., private
information was accidentally posted).
Fyi, for any users of Mylyn, and commits made on the Mylyn
component in Bugzilla you will see automatically-formatted comments that
explicitly associate commits with bugs. They have the following form:
235889: edit working sets
dialog misbehaves
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=235889
Mik
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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:43 AM
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Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] non-existing bugs that have existed
before...
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!
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