Re: Too few people taking care of bug reports, was: Re: Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:23:45 +0200
> Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,
> 	john@yates-sheets.org
> 
> > I disagree.  IME, frequently just looking or stepping through
> > unfamiliar code can reveal bugs whose reasons we can easily understand
> > and fix.  Just a few minutes ago I had this experience once more, see
> > bug#21881.  I assure you I knew nothing at all about mm-url.el, and
> > still don't.  Still, it took me just a few minutes to understand why
> > EWW barfs and see the solution that I'm sure is right.
> 
> I'm not saying I couldn't do that, but there's a limit to the number of 
> areas I want to be familiar with. I also have limited of time and other 
> projects, starving for attention.
> 
> I'm also currently exhausted by trying to explain the difference between 
> "project" and "libraries", to some people, over a zillion email messages.
> 
> > You should try this some time.  I think everybody here should.
> 
> The above is the primary method I do get acquainted with new code.
> 
> > Bottom line is: people like you and me (and many others here) know
> > quite a lot about Emacs and about debugging, and can find solutions to
> > many bugs even in unfamiliar code.
> 
> Been there, done that. Especially in third-party code, where it's much 
> easier to discuss the issues, explore the code, etc, everything without 
> closing the browser.

Then it sounds like you agree with me, and we both are doing about the
bugs whatever we can, given our free resources.  Thanks, and please
keep up.