From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pretest, devel and bug lists Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:12:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20080529001247.GK15311@volo.donarmstrong.com> References: <007201c8c038$e401e490$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <483C7BC7.3030700@gnu.org> <18493.52214.798172.380836@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212019976 26714 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2008 00:12:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:12:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 02:13:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K1Vlu-000331-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 02:13:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1Vl8-0001Fi-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1Vl3-0001Fd-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1Vl1-0001FR-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52659 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1Vl1-0001FO-Ca for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:59857) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1Vl0-0004jp-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 20:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m4T0CaiT029711 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:12:36 -0700 Original-Received: (from remotemail@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m4T0CZoL029710 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:12:35 -0700 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 31616 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 29 May 2008 00:12:47 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18493.52214.798172.380836@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97936 Archived-At: 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 -- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents" http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu