From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Handling bugs in obsolete code
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:10:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a8oh2ww8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba8ohvmzf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:59:32 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:59:32 -0500
>
> I think you're over-thinking it.
> The number of bugs in "obsolete" files is a tiny, insignificant
> fraction, and always will be. (I'm not even sure there are any left open.)
> Their influence on your stats will not be measurable.
>
> As debbugs.gnu.org maintainer, I won't define a new global "obsolete"
> tag for such a minority use. You could use a usertag, if you really want
> to (or just retitle them to add eg "[obsolete]").
Retitling sounds right to me, FWIW.
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2008-11-29 13:53 bug#1452: 23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode, Harald Hanche-Olsen
[not found] ` <handler.1452.B.122796683914175.ack@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
2008-11-29 14:52 ` bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-11-29 15:11 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 4:10 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 17:32 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-05 17:39 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 17:53 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 20:38 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-05 20:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 21:15 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2016-01-05 21:12 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-05 21:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-05 21:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-06 1:47 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-06 1:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-06 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 1:42 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 1:58 ` Handling bugs in obsolete code (was: bug#1452: ...) John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:27 ` Handling bugs in obsolete code Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 6:03 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 7:59 ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-07 8:28 ` CHENG Gao
2016-01-07 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-07 18:17 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:42 ` bug#1452: Acknowledgement (23.0.60; Problem with nextstep, longlines-mode,) Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 3:54 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-07 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-06 8:28 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-06 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
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