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6.4
0000435: Coverage should use CoverageCommand instead of gcov
 We learned about C and gcc yesterday in Operating Systems. This is the second time there has been some type of parallels in these two classes, no matter how little.  Unfortunately I found out this bug was for a different sub project.

For some reason the bug tracker is loading extremely slowly. I have been narrowing down categories such as date and project and it takes a minute to load each.

It also seems odd that there could be bugs titled as "new" that are from 2003.

0007760: vtkImplicitPlaneRepresentation Edges Property Not Set


This is the entire description: The following is missing from vtkImplicitPlaneRepresentation's constructor:
this->EdgesActor->SetProperty(this->EdgesProperty);

 The chapter states:
Good bugs provide relevant system information
Good bugs only report a single issue
Good bugs are followed by people who care about a solution
Good bugs are reproducible with the fewest possible steps

No one has worked on this because it was not well described.  It was definitely a short description. IT certainly did not follow these guidelines.

 
 
6.5
I have successfully added an account on Bugtracker under the screen name andrew.bissada
It was very easy.


6.6
I looked at some bugs to fix but honestly I don't understand all of it well enough to fix yet. It doesn't appear  that anyone that can code could just go in right away and start working on it.

6.7
To triage for our project is not bad at all. The Bug tracker is a lot better than I expected. You can apply many filters to your search including status and severity. Status includes: new, feedback, acknowledged, confirmed, assigned, resolved, closed. Under severity is includes: feature, block, trivial, text, tweak, minor, crash, and major.

Five bugs that cause VTK to crash are: 

0011607	crash	new	2010-12-15	Segfault with vtkXMLPImageDataReader
0006461	crash	new	2010-12-06	vtkDataArray::Size wrong after call to IDirect3DDevice9::CreateDevice
0011102	crash	new	2010-08-06	vtkDelaunay2D with some pairs of datasets and transforms crashes
0009783	crash	new	2010-04-20	Crash in vtkline.cxx - access uninitialized data
0010464	crash	new	2010-04-20	vtkSeedWidget CRASH!!!