From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [Was: bug#25148:] Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:14:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20191118181418.GB6204@ACM> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kz25qp9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="233917"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 19:14:40 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWlXr-000yjW-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:14:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38020 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWlXp-00062h-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:14:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWlXe-00061o-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:14:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWlXc-0004Rv-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:34775 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWlXa-0004Qi-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:14:23 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 62368 invoked by uid 3782); 18 Nov 2019 18:14:20 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FE15822.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.88.34]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:14:19 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 6312 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Nov 2019 18:14:18 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242394 Archived-At: Hello, John. Good to hear from you again. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:59:24 -0700, John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>> "ÓF" == Óscar Fuentes writes: [ .... ] > To date, my own experience with debbugs is: > 1. I don't know how to close a bug. You send email to 12345-done@debbugs.gnu.org. ^^^^^ > 2. I don't know how to find the information that tells me how to close a > bug, not without spending about 15 minutes Googling. And one forgets between finding out and needing to look the next time. ;-( The canonical documentation is in etc/admin/bugtracker (from memory). > 3. So I e-mail Eli, "Halp, please close bug XXX". > 4. Eli, being more responsive that I ever expect a volunteer to ever be, > closes it before the day ends. All this begs the question why are bugtrackers all so bad? > -- > John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F > http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2 -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).