Lost the battle, but not the war

Those of you following Planet Gnome will note that Christian threw
down a challenge
a little while ago between GStreamer, Metacity,
and Epiphany in regards to lowering bug counts. They (GStreamer)
quickly caught up to us (Metacity), then temporarily fell just barely
behind, and then soon pulled out into a strong lead. It was clear
that we had met defeat at their hands and lost the battle…but the
war continues. According to the current Weekly Bug
Summary
, we have pulled back ahead of GStreamer by one bug. Now,
some of you might think that I would show more class and wait (like
Christian) until we had a significant lead before declaring any kind
of victory. But you’d be wrong. Neener, neener, hah, hah, GStreamer
is a pile of bugs! (Besides, considering how Gstreamer developers are
prone to quickly close and fix bugs, I might not get my chance if I
didn’t take it right now 🙂

/me eagerly awaits the fury of gstreamer bug closing that this taunt
will unleash… 😉

Bug piles


Christian
says that we should look at GStreamer and learn from
them how to make bugfree software. I think that’s a great idea! The
most obvious step to me that they took was to hire someone to work on
issues
. We should do the same. We can pool all our spare change
and… Let’s see, I can contribute around -50 dollars a month (that’s
a minus sign, not a dash). I know, it’s not much, especially
considering all our efforts to cut costs (bake our own bread, stop
eating out completely, etc. etc.), but with rising health care costs
and rising rent and a low stipend (not to mention that funding will
run out before long), it’s what I have. Think that’ll be enough? Of
course, I don’t know if Rob and Havoc can go in on this, but I can
guarantee -50 dollars a month. Anyone want to send in a resume? 😉

GStreamer is a pile of bugs!

Well, I was able to drop Metacity back below GStreamer in the Weekly
Bug Summary
. That means I can declare GStreamer to be a pile of
bugs. I have to do so quickly, too, because I’m pretty sure that
Christian
will see to it that GStreamer drops below Metacity again
and most likely even out of reach of where I could get Metacity down
to. (Well, I guess I could just set the Weekly Bug Summary to stop
updating, but that would be cheating…)

Update: Well, that sure didn’t last for very long…