On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:23:20AM +0100, Lupe Christoph wrote: > On Monday, 2002-01-14 at 23:20:21 -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:25:11PM -0500, Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote: > > > I recompressed it as a real PNG, and attached it to this mail, for your > > viewing pleasure :) PNG gets 3.5 times better compression, probably because > > this image only uses 8 bits of colour, and the xwd was 24bit. > > I hadn't tried to view it when it first came around. As a graph, > it is not very impressive. Hard to judge x and y for any point on > the curve. This would probably be better done as a histogram.
Well. Take in account it was done somewhat in a hurry... IIRC x = number of days taken to fix bug y = number of bugs fixed > > > Someone else mentioned that this graph should go up on a website, but > > someone else shot them down. I think the suggestion was just for this image I did not "shot him down" just said I did not think it would be possible. Problem is, debiandoc-sgml has no support for inline images. > I still think a table and graph would be a god addition to the security > FAQ, as an answer to the question "How long does Debian take to > fix known vulnerabilities". Tne table could go in the FAQ, and the > graph could be linked. (Dunno how the FAQ gets set up, but I guess > there will be an ASCII-only version.) Already did it yesterday (except for th column with the data). See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch11.en.html#s11.3 Regards Javi