From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:40:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4E0C44A2.1040604@dogan.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309426928 5799 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 09:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:42:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 11:42:04 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 1QcDl5-0006sP-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcDl4-0000oB-Ma for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcDki-0000nd-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcDkg-0007i2-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:50366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcDkf-0007hy-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-105-155.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.105.155]:61503 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QcDk3-0000nH-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:41:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 80.216.105.155 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1QcDk3-0000nH-Hz. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1QcDk3-0000nH-Hz 1bfe81c4da16a2787c6cfcf63bb9e79d X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 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:141210 Archived-At: On 2011-06-30 11:09, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > >> We do not support alpha*-dec-osf* anymore, so this particular bug >> report can be closed. > > Right. > > Then there's the oodles of misguided feature requests like (at random): > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6891 > > which doesn't sound very useful, and is also incompatible with the > current return values, since (string-to-number "0x45" 16) today returns > 0, so it should be dismissed instead of letting it linger on. > > I wish we could have a Festival of Bug Triage, where each of us (how > many are there? 20?) pledge to close five bug reports per day. That's > like a thousand in three weeks. :-) > > Then we could use the bug tracker to track bugs. > > But, of course, it depends on what the policy for bug closure is... > The festival sounds like a great idea. I just wish I had the knowledge to actually fix that many bugs. Deniz