From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug statistics
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:24:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hbkre7fj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006241959.12567.tassilo@member.fsf.org>
> From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:59:11 +0200
> Cc:
>
> I guess, that there are quite a lot duplicate bug reports. The problem
> with M-x report-emacs-bug is that a bug gets filed unconditionally.
> With web-based bugtrackers, after entering the bug summary the whole
> database is searched for similar reports and that list is presended to
> the user. Then she can decide if it's really a new, unknown bug. If
> not, she can simply append additional information to an existing bug.
This is also far from ideal. Unless you have a lot of time on your
hands, going through the bugs and trying to figure out if they are the
same as yours is a nuisance. This should be a job of some program
that runs periodically, or, failing that, of a human (whom we
obviously lack).
Gathering all the information needed for a good bug report is already
a non-trivial job (witness how many veteran Emacs contributors fail to
do that!). We should not burden the bug submitters with any
additional costs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-23 20:41 Bug statistics Glenn Morris
2010-06-23 21:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-06-23 23:46 ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-24 15:40 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-24 17:59 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-06-25 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-06-25 11:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-06-25 20:16 ` Chong Yidong
2010-06-26 0:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-25 21:31 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-26 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 9:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-06-26 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 19:38 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-25 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-26 1:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-24 18:22 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-24 18:34 ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-24 19:07 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-24 19:21 ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-24 19:26 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-25 1:28 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-06-25 1:40 ` Karl Fogel
2010-06-25 1:57 ` debbugs search output [was Re: Bug statistics] Glenn Morris
2010-06-25 2:03 ` debbugs search output Glenn Morris
2010-06-25 3:02 ` Karl Fogel
2010-07-03 13:19 ` Michael Albinus
2010-07-03 14:34 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-03 18:36 ` Michael Albinus
2010-06-25 8:55 ` Bug statistics Yoni Rabkin
2010-06-25 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-25 20:23 ` Chong Yidong
2010-06-26 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 19:58 ` Chong Yidong
2010-06-26 14:09 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-25 21:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-06-26 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 14:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-27 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-27 20:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-06-24 18:26 ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-25 5:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-26 14:09 ` Richard Stallman
2010-06-26 16:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-27 21:09 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-20 19:32 Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-20 20:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-21 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 7:24 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-21 11:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-21 11:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-21 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-10-21 13:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-21 13:50 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-21 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-21 14:19 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-21 14:32 ` Michael Albinus
2019-10-21 17:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-21 14:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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