From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug triaging, debugging and patches Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:27 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <82d21ca1-54d7-051c-abb0-16b3d362484b@cs.ucla.edu> References: <209865546c9d60f3e889f7aec1ffb3da.squirrel@webmail.shakthimaan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503939496 20650 195.159.176.226 (28 Aug 2017 16:58:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:58:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Shakthi Kannan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 18:58:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dmNMX-0004wF-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:58:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40687 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmNMc-0000Xm-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmNM1-0000Xc-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmNLy-0006dT-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:54686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmNLy-0006TC-93 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FA5160080; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id ABoBULwG-a8n; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1AA16089A; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id FPE1wdFkSqjO; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7FA4C160080; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:57:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <209865546c9d60f3e889f7aec1ffb3da.squirrel@webmail.shakthimaan.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:217867 Archived-At: On 08/26/2017 11:31 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Is there a group or subsystem of bugs that do not yet require a large > understanding of the code base that I can get started with? I am happy > to explore source code, if required. Perhaps you can start with bugs labeled "wishlist" or "minor" in the main listing: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs Please use your best judgment as to how much code-base understanding is required, as we don't specifically classify bug reports that way. For an example of a bug *not* to look at, please see Bug#28213, a hairy one involving our conservative garbage collector mistakenly reclaiming some objects that are not actually garbage. (I'm looking at it now and tearing my hair out.) > If you can also shed some light on specific configurations and > workflows to work with the Emacs bugs database, I can set it up > accordingly. I suggest using 'git format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to propose a fix for a particular bug. For Bug#99999, you can send email to 99999@debbugs.gnu.org. Thanks for volunteering, by the way.