From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug statistics Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:53:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkyicgzh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1focf1eb1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <201006241959.12567.tassilo@member.fsf.org> <83hbkre7fj.fsf@gnu.org> <87vd9623zn.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277542322 19864 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2010 08:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 10:52:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSR7J-0006bz-8B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:52:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSR7I-0005uG-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43820 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSR7B-0005tq-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:51:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSR7A-0001Af-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:65349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSR7A-0001AK-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L4M00B005V0QP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:51:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.155.52]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L4M007G85XJF2F0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:51:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vd9623zn.fsf@red-bean.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126421 Archived-At: > From: Karl Fogel > Cc: Tassilo Horn , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:31:56 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.