I love project stats, and I completely obsess over bug reports.
Whilst collecting data for another post, a mystery libreoffice autocomplete popup me to plot something I hadn't thought of plotting.
What days of the week are bugs opened and closed?
Resolved can mean one of a few things; fixing the bug with a change in the code, marking it as a duplicate of another bug or in some cases closing it as not a direction we want to go with Plasma.
Observations
People report more on weekdays than weekends
The difference surprised me. I think it gives a strong indication that Plasma 5 is being used more for work than as a hobby, with people more likely to encounter an area needing to improvement during the normal office week.
Obviously we don't know for sure and we can't pull useful timestamp information without knowing timezone of the user, but indications seem to be there.
Bugs are resolved on a weeked at 50% of the rate of the weekday
This isn't too surprising given that some Plasma maintainers like myself work for Blue Systems or Red Hat and we tend to work office hours.
What's encouraging is that, whilst slower, this shows that a significant amount of work does happen outside office hours; both employees taking the extra time to care for Plasma and our community contributors stepping up to work here. There's some shift between the people doing weekday and weekend bug closing.
We get more bugs open than we close
Naturally our graph will show that we have some open bugs, but if we assume this rate continues our number of open bugs will continue to rise.
It's not as bad as this graph makes it look as there also a lot of bugs in a zombie "needs info" state, where we're waiting to hear back from a user either with more information or to confirm their issue is fixed.
We definitely need more help here, I want Plasma to be bug free.
It's all about Tuesdays
Tuesday is apparently the day for the most reports getting handled. It's also the day Plasma 5.4 gets released.
I always knew Tuesday was an underrated day of the week.