From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pretest, devel and bug lists
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:12:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529001247.GK15311@volo.donarmstrong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18493.52214.798172.380836@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > So we have exactly what you describe, except that bug-gnu-emacs is now
> > the "separate bug-tracker list".
>
> In other words, not exactly what RMS describes. I think it's overkill for
> everything that gets sent to bug-gnu-emacs to have a bug number. Some things
> are fixed immediately and others turn out not to be bugs.
All of these cases are cases where you should use a bug tracker; in
the case where they're fixed immediately or aren't bugs, you close
them and move on. They're tracked for you, so you can avoid losing an
important bug, and you know that every message has actually been dealt
with.
Don Armstrong
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 20:20 pretest, devel and bug lists Glenn Morris
2008-05-27 20:33 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-27 21:23 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-28 15:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-28 18:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 18:05 ` Sven Joachim
2008-05-28 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 18:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-28 18:44 ` Don Armstrong
2008-05-28 21:17 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-29 0:12 ` Don Armstrong [this message]
2008-05-29 10:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-29 16:22 ` Don Armstrong
2008-05-30 13:32 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-30 16:32 ` Don Armstrong
2008-05-30 3:52 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-30 18:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-05-31 2:07 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-05-27 22:41 ` Don Armstrong
2008-05-27 21:19 ` Chong Yidong
2008-05-27 22:01 ` Don Armstrong
2008-05-28 0:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 1:01 ` Karl Fogel
2008-05-28 1:52 ` Glenn Morris
2008-05-28 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 8:34 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-28 9:45 ` Nick Roberts
2008-05-28 10:37 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-28 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 21:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-05-28 12:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-28 22:03 ` Stephen Berman
2008-05-28 21:19 ` Reiner Steib
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