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Over 20 years of bug squashing

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 16, 2024

Quoting: Over 20 years of bug squashing · Ignorance is bliss... —

This means I look at user bug reports for over 20 years now.

The statistics tell me our team got more than 9000 bugs since around 2001 (just for Kate, this excludes the libraries like KTextEditor that we maintain, too).

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