Comment by alwa

The LLM-tone doesn’t help:

117 people meet this criteria. And the impact is dramatic:

It’s strange to me to think of “bugfixes” in terms of a commodity. Different problem spaces between subsystems and thus different types of (and surfaces for) bugs; different contributor mixes; different number of eyes on them; different potential impacts…

> CAN bus drivers top the list [of bug lifetime by subsystem]. These are used in automotive and industrial systems. Critical infrastructure with few maintainers watching.

…or maybe higher-quality initial submissions, with most of the easy bugs already wrung out of them, so only subtle bugs remain (thus fewer to fix).

Or adequately vigilant maintainers but low diversity of systems running that code, thus fewer users/situations where the bugs manifest, so they go unreported. Or poorer telemetry so an ordinary rate of latent bugs but they go undetected.

Could be any, probably a little of all, can’t really tell from the analysis; and each cause would suggest a different response to improve quality.