On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Doug McIlroy
The number of bugs would have to be normalized using the numbers of users of a project (maybe measured in number of downloads).
Do you expect more bugs for frequently downloaded packages, or fewer downloads for packages with many bug reports or bug rate diminishing with downloads? It's a slippery topic.
The question is whether code metrics could serve as a proxy for code-quality/sustainability. I didn't suggest to look for associations between downloads and bug-reports, but use the number of users as an extra variable in the model (to normalize the data). So if we assume that all the other variables remain the same, does code with better metrics exhibit better quality features in practice?
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