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: Unanswered Emacs Problem Reports 40+ Months Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <52689833.7060109@gnulinuxlibre.org> <526AC08E.3050907@gnulinuxlibre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382814608 11283 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2013 19:10:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christian Bryant Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 21:10:13 2013 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 1Va9FU-0000sl-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:10:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9FT-0004pq-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9FP-0004oU-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9FO-0004VS-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9FO-0004VM-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9FN-0004FP-32; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:10:05 -0400 X-Spook: emc bomb Vince Foster Marxist InfoSec dictionary X-Ran: [h]MB"lZ*2}=5^#@#I,'3)qfF\WNz"'\Ih{#w1mdpY<665XDwW{%e].hdGK8t{?ON-a>G{ X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:164567 Archived-At: Christian Bryant wrote: > I will shoot a handy report every 50-100 bugs over to Stefan > with those who answered with a slightly annoyed "yes". Taking > those in chunks and having new Emacs team members whittle them ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm not aware that there are any such people with interest in dealing with long-standing bug reports. > I've performed tasks like this many times at work, for the same > reasons: I saw a report where a specific application or library > not only dominated the bug report, but had the oldest bugs, too. > Maybe a year from now, or two or three years from now, some other > application can take that honor. Up until a little over 40 months ago, no-one other than Emacs was using debbugs.gnu.org, so the fact that almost all very old open bugs are Emacs ones tells us nothing. Sources such as http://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/emacs.html are more informative. BTW, there's no point querying anything tagged "confirmed" or "help" (not that many things are), or "wontfix". Things with severity "wishlist" or higher than "normal" are quite likely to still be applicable (actually, I suppose, maybe, anything with severity != "normal"). Things tagged "moreinfo" are likely to ... need more information.