<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jean-Michel Dalle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">den Besten, Matthijs</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Different Bug Fixing Regimes? A Preliminary Case for Superbugs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSS2007: Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation (IFIP 2.13)</style></secondary-title><tertiary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IFIP International Federation for Information Processing </style></tertiary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/Different Bug Fixing Regimes.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">234/2007</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">247 - 252</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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.
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