From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: handling partially fixed bugs [was: Diff emails to debbugs?] Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:35:53 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87ip7m5qgp.fsf@gnus.org> <8gtxr6f0em.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k3s0om8l.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356798972 24665 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2012 16:36:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" , "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 17:36:25 2012 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 1TozOY-0000vT-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:36:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozOJ-0002Us-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozOG-0002Un-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozOF-0003iz-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:46133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TozOE-0003ir-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBTGa1vM010372 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:36:02 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qBTGZxKt018354 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:36:00 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt114.oracle.com (abhmt114.oracle.com [141.146.116.66]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id qBTGZxqc010670; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 10:35:59 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.239.117) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:35:59 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87k3s0om8l.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Thread-Index: Ac3l4bm6/8O2loZbTey+q4hDytgbOwAACghg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:155994 Archived-At: > Somewhat off-topic because it couldn't be done automatically: what I > do with partial fixes is to close the original bug, and mark it > superseded by a new bug the describes the reduced scope concisely. > > Dunno if anybody else thinks it helps, but it does help me personally. It would be great if it were quick & simple to do that and also have the new bug automatically reference the closed bug. Depending on how it's implemented, the same manipulation could perhaps be used to split a multiple-topics bug into several smaller bugs (automatically closing the original and adding references to the new ones). And in bug threads (e.g. at http://debbugs.gnu.org/), related threads would hopefully contain links to their relations.