{"id":268,"date":"2004-07-20T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2004-07-20T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T16:41:55","slug":"the_joel_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/07\/20\/the_joel_test\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joel Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kris <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.koehntopp.de\/archives\/415_The+Joel+Test.html\">wonders<\/a> if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000043.html\">&#8220;The Joel Test&#8221;<\/a> applies to OpenSource Projects. He took KDE as an example that reaches quite high points on the Joel Test because of it&#8217;s strong focus on releases.<br \/>\nMela pointed out that the BSDs are also focused on releases. I tried the test on FreeBSD and got only 6 points. The most interesting question is No. 6 &#8220;Do you fix bugs before writing new code?&#8221;. Per coincidence, during last weeks debate about bugtracking software on the developers Mailinglist, I suggested that the RE team puts a stronger focus on the Bug numbers. Take a look at this chart and you can see, what I mean: 1250 reported Kernel Bugreports are just unmanagable.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.freebsd.org\/~bsd\/prstats\/gplot9.gif\" alt=\"Open Bugreports\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris wonders if &#8220;The Joel Test&#8221; applies to OpenSource Projects. He took KDE as an example that reaches quite high points on the Joel Test because of it&#8217;s strong focus on releases. Mela pointed out that the BSDs are also focused on releases. I tried the test on FreeBSD and got only 6 points. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/07\/20\/the_joel_test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Joel Test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}