@conference {639,
	title = {Different Bug Fixing Regimes? A Preliminary Case for Superbugs},
	booktitle = {OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)},
	series = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing },
	volume = {234/2007},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {247 - 252},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {23},
	abstract = {The paper investigates the processes by which bugs are fixed in open-source software projects. Focusing on Mozilla and combining data from both its bug tracker (Bugzilla) and from its CVS, we suggest that: a) Some bugs resist beyond the first patch applied to the main branch of the source code in relation to them, which we denote as superbugs; b) There might exist different bug fixing regimes; c) priority and severity flags as defined in bug repositories are not optimized for superbugs and might lead to a involuntary side effects; d) The survival time of superbugs is influenced by the nature of the discussions within Bugzilla, by bug dependencies and by the provision of contextual elements.
},
	issn = {978-0-387-72485-0},
	doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_23},
	attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Different\%20Bug\%20Fixing\%20Regimes.pdf},
	author = {Jean-Michel Dalle and den Besten, Matthijs}
}
