From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:51:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87r56a17wj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87zkkzfiz5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vcvm24ol.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309525125 7410 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 12:58:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 14:58:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdIr-0003Yy-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:58:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdIq-0003Fq-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdBo-0001Za-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:51:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdBm-000361-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:57701) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcdBm-000343-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC303FA052C; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 21:51:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 98A3B1A2628; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 21:51:08 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" cd1f8c4e81cd XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.223 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:141361 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > A strong tendency, with little impact IMHO because it seems that most > people does a very cursory "specific search for > the-bug-you-are-about-to-report". At least that's my feeling... This is true (but debbugs.el looks like it will help a lot!) However, my (limited) experience with our Roundup, and (vicarious) experience with Python's suggests that improvements in search technology can dramatically increase the rate of people searching. > I would really like something that brought to attention stagnated > bug reports. Well, IIRC you've got about 1500 of them; why not just (debbugs-get-bug (random 2600))?