From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20101117105947.GB21042@shi.workgroup> <8362vvda2j.fsf@gnu.org> <201011180848.18858.tassilo@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290115382 7895 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 21:23:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Tassilo Horn , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Andrew W. Nosenko" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 22:22:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJBwY-0002uW-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:22:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJBwX-0001EY-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54010 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJBwT-0001EP-Jg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJBwS-00005w-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJBwS-00005s-GA; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33657) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJBwQ-0005GJ-Jp; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:22:50 -0500 X-Spook: David John Oates keyhole eternity server Israel Islam X-Ran: _;O89 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132835 Archived-At: "Andrew W. Nosenko" wrote: > Usually, in general case, an user that reports a bug has not enough > skills and knowledge in the area for be sure that a bug, which he > going to report, and a bug, which found by pre-submit query, are > duplicates indeed. Therefore, request he to make such decition is > just unfair (and ineffective). If I were reporting a bug with Emacs going to the wrong column, I think the minimum effort I should put in is to search for reports with "column" in the subject. I personally think that's a fair expectation, but if you disagree with that I'm not going to be able to change your mind. For an obvious problem with the development version, then personally I would also wait a couple of days before making a report. Clearly duplicates will still occur and will need to be merged; it's not a big deal and I certainly don't want to discourage people from making bug reports.