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[Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 22:00 +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
> We have a choice:
>  - make the data utterly precise
>  - be a bit simpler and accept some inaccuracy

Simple and inaccurate.

> I'd like to go with simpler an inaccurate for now because:
>  - we went for years with inaccurate counts unnoticed by users [ who
> can tell that 700 should be 580, really?]
>  - the error rate is pretty low - my tests so far suggest ~5% [of
> private bugs] - so the numbers won't be *far* off.
>  - being more precise will be more complex - we'll need to query
> privacy separately 

We are fooling ourselves to think that bug data is stable enough to
claim numbers are accurate for more than a minute. Bugs are in a
constant state of change, especially for projects like Ubuntu. There may
have been 1000 open bugs when you are the search page, but there ate
1002 when you choose a link to see.

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