"Jeff Jones, a director of security strategy at Microsoft published a report today about counting bugs.

The object of this post is to make you think about ways we could improve each one. I’ll try to link to bugs where there are bugs, but a lot of these are quite new design decisions only present in 10.04 and hence don’t have bugs filed.

One of the things I’ve always liked about using Linux is the feeling that my input is actually important. Either by way of giving input to the developers directly or (more importantly) reporting bugs that inevitably appear on a system. It’s the latter of the two that help Linux. But to the new user, these bugs are nothing more than a nuisance, getting in the way of things “just working”.

Tracking and squishing bugs (both the six-legged and the computer software kind) is hard, and you need all the help you can get.

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week’s HugDay target is Firefox 3!

* 658 New bugs need a hug
* 131 Confirmed bugs just need a review

Nothing needs to be said about how important Firefox is, it just needs to work. With over 1300 bugs currently open, we can use a lot of help getting the information needed to shake out the bugs.

So, this week I’ve got to do something I’m pretty familiar with! We’ve been working on the Fedora 11 Common Bugs page. Here’s Several Awesome Things about the common bugs page...

kde respects bugs. bugs in kde3 have their equivalent in kde4. rule of thumb in developing kde is 'we do not fix bugs. ever.' the worst part is that important bugs in kde3 were not fixed in several years.

Thunderbird 11 has been released, this is a new release that comes with a new user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual, fixed a various bugs including security bugs, Thunderbird notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later, Fixes a crash seen during importing of Microsoft Outlook profiles.

“These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don’t just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code," Raadt said.