[nickzoic]

What I'm a bit puzzled by here is that if I'm reading the X-axis right the rot sets in at 3 weeks ... I mean, that's not very far in. It seems odd that the graphs are both otherwise so linear.

I just EOLed a project which started 8 years ago ... at least one bug existed for 7.5 years of that. It was a minor UI bug and just bumped along at Priority Low with no-one really minding it until the company got acquired and the project got merged into another one. There were others as well.

My point is: without splitting the "backlog" by priority it is hard to see if this is really "software death" or just "bug fossilization" ...

Maybe I should draw my own graph.

[sandal]

This is an accumulation over the 4 month period, not a total issue count on the tracker. So... there were already many issues in the backlog before the measurement window started, and 500 new issues were opened during the period. :-/