I'd imagine quite a few people sign up just to vote for bugs or make comments.

Posted by Asztal at November 30, 2007 3:39 PM

what are the numbers of people in the following:

unique people who have votes on bugs (is historical data available here)
unique people who are cced on bugs (is historical data available here)

unique people who have votes, are cced or have created bugs (basically unique people who have used bugzilla)

Posted by Bill at November 30, 2007 3:52 PM

Trois-Rivière is a beautiful city with about 100,000 citizens... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res

Posted by Gabriel at November 30, 2007 4:34 PM

I know there are third-party developers who have accounts in Bugzilla (sometimes multiple ones when their company is taken over) simply to comment and pass information back and forth about bugs that exist somewhere between their products and ours.

Many of our contributors also have one or more "watcher" accounts to help them manage bugmail.

In Camino we also request all our localizers have Bugzilla accounts so we can cc them to appropriate bugs, but most of the localizers have never filed any bugs.

I suppose it's also possible that we have "non-regular" developers who experience a bug, decide to fix it, and find the existing report, so they never need to file a bug report themselves.

I doubt these categories can explain away the 200K difference, but there are valid reasons, as Asztal notes, for the number of accounts to be higher than the number of unique bug-filers.

Posted by Smokey Ardisson at November 30, 2007 5:40 PM

Either Warren or Cape May Counties of New Jersey:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US34&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-T1-R&-ds_name=PEP_2006_EST&-_lang=en&-format=ST-2S&-_sse=on

Posted by Lurker at December 1, 2007 3:15 AM

Some answers to some of the questions above...

unique people who have votes on bugs

40613

(is historical data available here)

No.

unique people who are cced on bugs

61495

(is historical data available here)

Yes, but not in a way that's easy to count. In my couple minutes of thinking about it, I couldn't come up with a way to do it even close to accurately.

unique people who have votes, are cced or have created bugs

130738
Posted by Dave Miller at December 1, 2007 7:23 AM

Bugzilla shouldn't be to easy, it must be a little bit cryptic.
An easier bugzilla would only generate more of this support question bug reports and how should you be able to find real bugs in the flood of incoming bug reports?

Many people just create an account to write a bug report, only a few people do more in bugzilla like watching bugs.

Posted by Matthias Versen at December 1, 2007 10:20 AM

It would be interesting to see how many of those user_ids are referenced in *any* other table (besides the tables they get added to automatically for existing, such as the emailprefs table).

LpSolit's actually got a nice patch on trunk for making the normal enter_bug much simpler. I don't know if it's in yet, though...

I'm not too concerned about making enter_bug SUPER easy to use--there has to be *some* barrier to entry for filing a bug. But I think just the number of fields that have to be filled out is enough of a barrier, without making the UI also impossible to understand.

-Max

Posted by Max Kanat-Alexander at December 4, 2007 11:01 AM