From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Basic questions about the triage process Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:40:42 +0000 Message-ID: <8737u9j9n9.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87vb75je3z.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86fuy9vyei.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452206469 4317 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 22:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 22:41:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 23:40:54 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 1aHJEj-0001y6-CF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEi-0001zi-Tz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEf-0001zJ-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEa-00012L-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:40:48 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:60355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEZ-00011v-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEZ-0007ab-A2; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:40:43 +0000 Original-Received: from cpc1-benw10-2-0-cust373.gate.cable.virginm.net ([77.98.219.118] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aHJEY-0007En-VU; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:40:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: <86fuy9vyei.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2016 22:05:09 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:197777 Archived-At: Andy Moreton writes: > 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). "issue-triage" would also be fine. But "bug" is generally accepted here. "debbugs", "bugtracker" and so on. Just trying to increase discoverability. Phil