Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 7, 2006 @05:49AM from the must-go-faster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog has published the results of a look back at three years worth of critical patches from Mozilla, and found that Mozilla typically ships updates for critical flaws in about three weeks, though in more than a third of the cases it pushed out a fix in ten days or less. The data comes just a few weeks after The Post published data from a similar study that found Microsoft averaged 130+ days to fix critical flaws. Slashdot also covered that study in a previous post."

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It's just numerology. by Ancient_Hacker · 2006-02-07 05:57 · Score: 4, Interesting

Kinda reminds me of story about the Soviet shovel factory that was given a quota to ship 500 tons of shovels per month.
No problem, they just made the shovels REALLY HEAVY, so they only had to make a few of them.
Software metrics are very slippery things.