Re: Bug statistics

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,  rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:31:56 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >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).
> 
> FWIW, when I've experienced this automated dup-finding in the web
> interface of other bug trackers, it has not been a nuisance -- on the
> contrary it was a great relief, because it helped me know I'm not
> wasting the developers' time with a duplicate report.  (The majority of
> the time, it did find a dup of what I was about to file.  Sometimes I
> was able to go to that existing report and add useful information.)
> 
> For me it became one of those "never go back" features, like sexp motion
> in Emacs.

That would put you into the ``have a lot of time on your hands''
category, in my book.  I have maybe 10 hours a week to work on Emacs.
I cannot invest any significant portion of that time on reading the
descriptions of bugs, without adversely affecting my productivity,
which is too low as it is.