From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug statistics Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:59:11 +0200 Message-ID: <201006241959.12567.tassilo@member.fsf.org> References: <1focf1eb1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277402431 25364 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2010 18:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:00:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 24 20:00:28 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORqiq-0003cq-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:00:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORqil-0006dA-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:00:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32810 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ORqhp-00068p-QQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORqhn-0001IU-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:58555) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ORqhn-0001IA-Ne; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A9D1053C0; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:date:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; s=smtpout; bh=Ga+NChGvSwjLizZPZ12ABEFu3sI=; b=GjoUO0rFP2Wv5PD0ZjkGHZfhFqp6dSCiKViNzQd84anWze1OOZnAoWEU3KBYneSWBz3BYeN+BKYw4ATi0DMBB2tXd1ooFdVDG+tKp351MzTeE2WEu8CgncYDFvDZeCOHhhHZJ0EyOTDJb3laGC+1r7PrX9XUn24t+ttzcTu8lI4= X-Sasl-enc: 9N4MmfEG+MNlOq2Bzg7VsdQJO2YB/SK5qTrg1bmQO+jc 1277402354 Original-Received: from thinkpad.localnet (p54AF1304.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.19.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAED34ADF82; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:59:14 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Face: `TY6r/ws=N5uqO1E`M=Sups<}n%T[E^o_?MJj 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:126366 Archived-At: On Thursday 24 June 2010 17:40:50 Richard Stallman wrote: Hi Richard, > 4594 reports [1] > 2647 closed reports > > Amost 2000 bug reports not closed > is rather disturbing. > > 14% have been marked "minor" > 20% have been marked "wishlist" > 9% are tagged "moreinfo" > 5% are tagged "wontfix". > > That is about 40%. It seems to imply there are around 1200 bug > reports which are not marked in these ways, and not fixed either. > Is that true? Statistics never lie. ;-) I guess, that there are quite a lot duplicate bug reports. The problem with M-x report-emacs-bug is that a bug gets filed unconditionally. With web-based bugtrackers, after entering the bug summary the whole database is searched for similar reports and that list is presended to the user. Then she can decide if it's really a new, unknown bug. If not, she can simply append additional information to an existing bug. As a poor man's solution, I'd suggest to add some text to the beginning of the bug report email M-x report-emacs-bug is creating, which asks the user to first search the existing bugs at http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs before filing a new one. (And maybe, there should be information how to change the "To:" in the mail, so that the report will be appended to the existing report if there is any.) Bye, Tassilo