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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Christian Bryant <christian@gnulinuxlibre.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unanswered Emacs Problem Reports 40+ Months
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:47:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu61slp4qg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviowmlql6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:21:51 -0400")

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> We're not talking about closing the bugs, but confirming that the bug is
> still relevant.  Tho, in the absence of a reply by the bug-submitter
> within a month (say), we could also decide to close the bug.

I imagine most responses will be of two kinds:

1) No reply. Then what?

2) A slightly annoyed "yes, of course my wishlist/doc bug/whatever"
still applies, didn't you read it/test it/try my patch?".

The useful replies I expect to be a small minority ("It was fixed in
24.1", "I misunderstood and this is not actually a bug", etc.)

So I expect the result will be mostly be to annoy the bug reporters.

> The idea is to ask the bug-submitter's help.

Well, ok.

> I think this classification can be made automatically/heuristically
> by checking if the last message was from a developer.

I'm not optimistic that an automatic process can tell us much, but I
guess we'll see.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24  3:46 Unanswered Emacs Problem Reports 40+ Months Christian Bryant
2013-10-24  7:46 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-24  7:59   ` Christian Bryant
2013-10-24 14:21   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-25 18:47     ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-10-25 19:03       ` Christian Bryant
2013-10-26 19:10         ` Glenn Morris

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