From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 13:08:35 +0200 Message-ID: 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309520752 13365 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2011 11:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 11:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 13:45:48 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 1QccAM-0004ag-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QccAM-0001hU-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcbb5-000129-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcbb3-0001iF-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:55627) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcbb3-0001i0-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: by pvc12 with SMTP id 12so3248051pvc.0 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:09:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GVUQAKA04vn6A0O2VudaUU63Arxvn1ya3+ZN5X4+afw=; b=mHpqFLF+CLg2gsDXLVIX0kS3N4H/vMx7cqI1sMQEeWGclYcMgBISDfaR0Ws1GljkiH 0K9IRSHw41ktWP6PQvfIt7ZcLWEUlxBaBD8FbuOsxWi/SWhiZEnGpekdF5Fug+6e4u9b HReFL3WAs+CcgOfnPSomUy9ytXK/gc/zIj0m4= Original-Received: by 10.142.144.11 with SMTP id r11mr1402825wfd.335.1309518555417; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.50.7 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:08:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vcvm24ol.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.83.169 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:141349 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 03:03, Stephen J. Turnbull wrot= e: > Actually, it can. =C2=A0The problem is that when you do a specific search > for the-bug-you-are-about-to-report, most trackers will apply the "not > closed" filter. =C2=A0In that case there will be a strong tendency to > increase the number of dupes. 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... > Alternatively to all of the above, Roundup has a contributed script > that regularly (by default, each week) sends a bug summary to the > developers list. =C2=A0I don't know how many Emacs developers would use > such a thing (it's a matter of taste, of course), but I know that > several people on the python-dev list use theirs -- it's visible in > their posts about "isn't it time to do something about this bug?" etc. I would really like something that brought to attention stagnated bug repor= ts. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma