From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309410059 13973 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 05:00:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:00:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 07:00:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9N0-0001sW-3U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Mz-0007vb-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Mh-0007vQ-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Md-0007eI-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:41485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Md-0007eE-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc9Mc-0005tT-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:56:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:141200 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Glenn Morris writes: > >> See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6533 > > :-) > >>> Does that really means that there are over 2000 unresolved bug reports >>> in the tracker? >> >> Yes. >> >> http://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/emacs.html > > Ouch. > > Has there been a policy discussion here about how the bug tracker should > be handled? Having witnessed these discussions before, there are > usually two sides of the argument: > > 1) All bugs, no matter how old, should be kept on the books until they > have been replicated and fixed, because, one day, somebody may take a > look at them and fix them. Even though they're for really obscure > systems and the likelihood of that ever happening is small: > > Viz: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=244 We do not support alpha*-dec-osf* anymore, so this particular bug report can be closed.