From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Too few people taking care of bug reports, Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:14:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83io58jl0y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8337wdn6uu.fsf@gnu.org> <86611975jo.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <838u65kxly.fsf@gnu.org> <86mvuk4xxd.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <831tbwlext.fsf@gnu.org> <5643A77D.90704@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447276542 29922 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 21:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, rms@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 22:15:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1Zwcjo-00089y-Ca for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 22:15:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwcjo-00009R-N0 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwcja-0008Ix-Fb for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwcjO-0004b8-LP for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:34152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwcjO-0004au-DD; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXO00K00512OV00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:10:11 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXO00JRS5GZ2W20@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:10:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tangents:7 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stephen Leake , emacs-tangents@gnu.org, john@yates-sheets.org, Richard Stallman > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:50:53 -0800 > > It could also be that I just haven't discovered all of the tricks that Eli > might know. Is there any documentation I should be reading beyond what's on > the GNU bug tracker page? I don't have any tricks. I'm subscribed to the bug mailing list and read each and every bug report. If it's something I decide to look into, I leave the mail in my inbox and get to that when I have time. That's all. Taking care of a bug, for me, could be as simple as reproducing it (or not) and posting the results, or it could be a request for the OP to try something and report back, or it could be a full-fledged debug session. Either way, all I need from the tracker is the data about the bug. Whatever debbugs does, it cannot screw that up.