Today I found two bugs in this site and asked questions about them. My questions were marked as duplicates. That's fine. Is there anyone who views those and fixes bugs in this site?
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29The Stack Overflow codebase is self conscious. It tracks and fixes its own bugs.– Oded StaffModCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:26
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2There are a lot of things to do, I'm sure that the dev team will get to them when they can (he says still bitterly waiting for a fix to his own bug)– Richard TingleCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:30
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3No, these bug reports are just there to occupy us.– juergen dCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:30
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1@Oded Any record or track or way by which users get to know about self conscious?– Ankush MadankarCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:30
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2I find it difficult to parse your last comment. I have no idea what it means. Do you understand what the term "self conscious" means?– Oded StaffModCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:31
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7Oded is one of the code's keepers. His job is to stroke and feed it– PekkaCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:32
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2@Pëkka - and I have the scratches marks to prove it.– Oded StaffModCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:32
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1@Oded Pretty sure you just acknowledged that we have sentient bugs. I'm just sayin'– user50049Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:38
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I think all of ur terms little difficult for me to understand.. Code keeprs? Codebase? And yes self conscious?– Ankush MadankarCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:39
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4@AnkushMadankar: I guess your grasp on English is not quite good enough. To spell it out: they are making jokes.– Martijn PietersCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:40
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@TinyTim - was there ever a doubt?– Oded StaffModCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:43
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1This question must protected or comment would really overflow!– Ankush MadankarCommented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:58
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1@Oded I fear the OP here just missed the joke.– Shadow WizardCommented Dec 30, 2013 at 7:46
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1@ShadowWizard - that was rather obvious from his comments here. This is why we can't have nice things.– Oded StaffModCommented Dec 30, 2013 at 8:50
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1@Oded of course we can, we just have to teach our lore to newcomers... :)– Shadow WizardCommented Dec 30, 2013 at 8:51
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Both the developers and the community team regularly patrol every meta site in the network, to make sure that all valid bug reports get attention (among other things). Sometimes, things don't get tagged correctly, but we do often catch those relatively quickly as well.
The order in which bugs are fixed, delayed until another bug is fixed, or put on the back burner for being very low impacting is completely up to the developers - they want to make sure that they're satisfying the broadest group of users possible with their work.
Some bugs are valid, but not very noticeable, and may remain unfixed because it's known that a major change coming up relatively soon is going to make them a bit of a moot point to begin with.
However, we do try to acknowledge each one, and provide feedback on them. If a bug is a duplicate of another, chances are the feedback we've given is on the original - so be sure to check there. If there hasn't been much movement since, you're absolutely free to @mention one of us and ask - we're pretty good at responding to that.
There's also a contact link in the footer of every page on every site - if something that seemed minor went major, or you think something just didn't get noticed, you're always free to get in touch with us.
To directly answer: Yes, every (valid) bug report counts.
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1I'm sorry, but actually I don't really feel that we get much responses on bug reports. Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:42
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1@juergend We've been working rather hard lately to change that perception, though that is coming off the heels of a rather large backlog. We have gotten better, and will hopefully continue to do so - is there a particular bug you filed recently that didn't get enough of a response?– user50049Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 17:50
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I wont mark this solution as answer unless u solve all bugs or Jon Skeet Sir show presence on SO... ;-) Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 18:07
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1@TinyTim: I just revisited my recent posts and I must admit you really try to reply. I hope people notice the difference. Commented Dec 17, 2013 at 18:41
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1@TinyTim Well! If you offer to fix bug just like that, on a silver platter :P! Fixing this would be my xmas gift: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/175911/… (Btw you guys have been doing a great job! Keep up with the good work) Commented Dec 18, 2013 at 6:26
There are 4,461 bugs which have been marked as status-completed.
There are 10,164 bugs, though 403 are not reproducible (tagged status-norepro), 1,416 are by design (tagged status-bydesign), and 277 are declined (tagged status-declined).
That gives us 4,461 bugs fixed out of 8,068, or a 55.3% clear rate on reported bugs.
So yes, they do get fixed.
