[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

[Georg Brandl]

Am 25.09.2010 03:45, schrieb Brett Cannon:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:04, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> So by opening and closing a bug 5 times within a week, the "open" and
>> "close" counters both go up by 5?  That would be stupid.
> 
> No, as in a bug was re-opened last week and then closed again this week.
> 
>>
>> Issues can't be open and closed at the same time.  There is a count of
>> open issues at the start of the week, and one at the end of the week.
>> There's a difference between those two counts which in total must sum
>> up to the total difference in issues.
>>
>> If I understand correctly how the counters work, they at least need to
>> be renamed -- they do *not* count open/closed issues, they count
>> openings/closings.
> 
> Guess the only way to settle this is look at the code, but I don't
> care enough to bother. =)

I'll bother Ezio when he's back.  It just feels strange to me that the bit
of statistic I feel is most interesting -- whether there are less open bugs
at the end of the week than at the start -- is not obvious from the report.

Georg

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