From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Basic questions about the triage process Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:05:09 +0000 Message-ID: <86fuy9vyei.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87vb75je3z.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452204359 32488 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 22:05:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 22:05:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 23:05:51 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgl-0002m8-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:05:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgl-0002pE-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:05:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgh-0002oK-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:05:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgd-0003vN-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:05:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgd-0003vD-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:05:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aHIgW-0002YZ-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:05:32 +0100 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:05:32 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:05:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F4pYq85qSGqB4gQNAPIAmNsOtSg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197771 Archived-At: On Thu 07 Jan 2016, Phillip Lord wrote: > Andrew Hyatt writes: > >> John Wiegley writes: >> >>>>>>>> Andrew Hyatt writes: >>> >>> Perhaps we do need a targeted document for on-boarding bug herders. If, while >>> you're learning this process, you could keep some notes on what helped you to >>> get started, Andrew, that could become the start of such a document. >> >> I've put together my notes into a file I stuck in the admin section. >> I'm attaching it as a patch. Feedback would be welcome, of course. I'm >> guessing there's a few other things we'd like to put into this document >> as well, but I won't attempt to go beyond just the basic triage >> procedure we've discussed in this thread. > > Would you object to changing the name of this file to "bug-triage". It > should say "bug" somewhere! Why ? Not all problems raised in an issue tracker are actually bugs (user error, misconfiguration, distro packaging issues etc). AndyM