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: 4K Bugs Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:29:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83vb7lijub.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mvszdp6b.fsf@gnus.org> <567E4ABA.3080803@online.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451125747 26299 80.91.229.3 (26 Dec 2015 10:29:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas =?windows-1252?Q?R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 11:29:02 2015 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 1aCm5t-0007RR-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:29:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCm5n-0000v0-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:28:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCm5k-0000uu-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCm5j-0005qM-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:28:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCm5f-0005pu-Lt; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:28:47 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1149 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aCm5e-0001h8-WC; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 05:28:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <567E4ABA.3080803@online.de> (message from Andreas =?windows-1252?Q?R=F6hler?= on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:07:22 +0100) 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:196884 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Röhler > Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 09:07:22 +0100 > Cc: John Wiegley > > IMHO trying to fix these old bugs is not the best way to spend time. > Many things might have changed since - dealing with this changes resp. > their effects makes any reasoning complex. But we should try doing that anyway. > What about getting bugs deleted when not dealt with after some time - > while informing the author? That's be losing information for no good reason. Every bug report provides information about the bug, sometimes the information is very valuable, sometimes less so. We shouldn't lose that information so easily. It hurts no one to have an old bug in the database. > So the author may renew it. The author may no longer be available, or care.