Kernel release status

It would make an interesting article to analize how long unresolved regressions survive after release. For example lets say 2.6.34 still has 24 unresolved regressions at release and 2.6.33 also had 24.

Then we would have data like:

Unresolved regressions
2.6.33 2.6.34

2.6.33.0 24 NA
2.6.33.1 18 NA
2.6.33.2 16 NA
2.6.34.0 13 24
2.6.34.1 10 19
2.6.34.2 7 12

and so on. There seems to be a belief that regressions get fixed in the point releases. How long does it really take for a regression that is released to get fixed? How many known regressions are over a year old? How long does a regression have to live for before it is not a regression and is just the-way-the-world-is?

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