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 21:04:16 +0000 Message-ID: <87vb75je3z.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452200740 6324 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 21:05:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 21:05:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 22:05:31 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 1aHHkM-0004rM-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:05:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHHkL-00028v-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:05:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHHjL-0000jr-Rm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHHjH-0007b6-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:48464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHHjH-0007Zu-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aHHjF-0002yY-FB; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:04:17 +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 1aHHjF-000557-Fb; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 21:04:17 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Andrew Hyatt's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:40:08 -0500") 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: 128.240.234.22 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:197759 Archived-At: 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! Phil