From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Hyatt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Basic questions about the triage process Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:46:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vb75je3z.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86fuy9vyei.fsf@gmail.com> <8737u9j9n9.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452311207 18553 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2016 03:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 03:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Moreton , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 04:46:42 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 1aHkUD-0000WY-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2016 04:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHkU9-0000Mv-B4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47169) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHkTv-0000MX-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHkTq-0001tN-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:46:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qk0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22c]:33657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHkTq-0001t6-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 22:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qk0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id p186so128166362qke.0 for ; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:46:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=75Z1itSLXd12lQOnbQ0iZdmwLViRwaKbuq9X1dO9WYk=; b=hHqdXK12DG5ig5IdR61n6MAYZyc9KA0Uum3V95vO95rFWExzyF1sqb13Lx7a3lywJT AxWE5ql06+UjlzvJ1yrqDFPyvqgMm6MBIMCvfAL77rBj25mZesqBSACNaHXDwN/eYQJF SgP+1T8Ooe58ShSkhWfpP47okx+ySPQPRikCMOr04pgw1i3hAbtdTIjd/Um04gpFngfN uowegNLfnH8NZwa12c1EvwzPM9n9sXFlQIkk1JO1rvO8r9yzsyEsAPd6YDqRFjNI44TX GPG5Sm73k39F3Erwn34GVrSP4jKsiI02SVQW2IuCnDjeyNRJJgMCqsGfGIwuhjTs5ahf AHxA== X-Received: by 10.55.75.144 with SMTP id y138mr58034269qka.96.1452311177706; Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:46:17 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local.ahyatt-laptop (cpe-74-73-128-199.nyc.res.rr.com. [74.73.128.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 63sm20933978qhs.22.2016.01.08.19.46.16 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:46:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8737u9j9n9.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:40:42 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22c 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:197878 Archived-At: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Andy Moreton writes: > >> On Thu 07 Jan 2016, Phillip Lord wrote: >> >>> 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! >> >> Why ? Not all problems raised in an issue tracker are actually bugs >> (user error, misconfiguration, distro packaging issues etc). > > > "issue-triage" would also be fine. But "bug" is generally accepted here. > "debbugs", "bugtracker" and so on. > > Just trying to increase discoverability. I agree, I'll change this to bug-triage. FWIW, these systems always seem to be referred to as bug systems, even though they always end up handling other things besides bugs. > > Phil