From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion to indicate fixed version when closing a bug Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:43:54 +0200 Message-ID: <834nx8mcud.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d3bwn7mu.fsf@gnu.org> <5dhb18p7i7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323546245 25558 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2011 19:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 20:44:01 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 1RZSq0-0004mw-Kf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:44:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSq0-0003OQ-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:44:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSpx-0003OL-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:43:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSpw-0003DE-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:53416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RZSpw-0003D8-IE; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:43:56 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LW000M006Q40I00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:43:54 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.199.182]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LW000HRJ6T51NB2@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:43:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <5dhb18p7i7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:146623 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:10:56 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Why is this important? > > I think it is easy to do, and useful so that people who are experiencing > a bug can easily check if it is supposed to be fixed in some later > version of Emacs. This may be particularly useful during pretesting, > when version numbers change more rapidly. The information is error prone and people will forget to do that. If we cannot produce that information automatically, it will be unreliable.