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wrsyesterday at 6:39 PM1 replyview on HN

This would be more convincing if there were a simple stat on the home page of the dispositions of the reported bugs (fixed/no-repro/won't-fix).

As a random sample of one, I looked at one of the bugs this reported on Tailscale (first thing on the homepage) [0], and the pull request ends with "Apologies for the lack of due diligence here. I'll go ahead and close this out."

[0] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/17843


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drobyesterday at 6:46 PM

We should publish some stats. The fix rates on bugs are around 45% baseline, increasing over time as we learn from behavior within a given codebase. The merge rates for the codebase health work we do (e.g. deleting dead code) are very high, at least 90%.