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: Handling bugs in obsolete code Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 18:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83a8oh2ww8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20081129.145347.35808910.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.155222.124907962.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20081129.161126.71259916.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <5vy4c46ifr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oacz5188.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4c32wwf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452183050 25985 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 16:10:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ahyatt@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 17:10:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8x-00060R-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:10:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8w-0008Ty-Be for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:10:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8s-0008TR-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8r-0004Cg-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8m-00049e-5U; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1683 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aHD8l-0007cU-8W; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:10:19 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:59:32 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:197736 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Andrew Hyatt > 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.