From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: <87zkkzfiz5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309449935 23339 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 16:05:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:05:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 18:05:31 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 1QcJk8-0006Y5-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47324 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcJk7-0002fE-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcIyL-00064e-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcIyH-0001Fn-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.143]:35161) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcIyG-0001Fh-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014060.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.60]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-02.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5UFFwPw002497 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:15:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:09:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.143 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.143 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:141243 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Then there's the oodles of misguided feature requests like (at random): > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6891 > > which doesn't sound very useful, and is also incompatible with the > current return values, since (string-to-number "0x45" 16) today > returns 0, so it should be dismissed instead of letting it linger on. Most such bugs are already marked wishlist; unless the request is truly outlandish, letting them "linger on" is not a big deal, since they are easy to exclude in searches. Similarly, we have lots of bugs tagged unreproducible and/or wontfix. We haven't been closing these, but if that bothers people, we could institute a policy of closing such bugs if there is no traffic after, say, a year. I don't care, personally. As for the rest of the old bugs, many are "long tail" issues that are difficult and/or time-consuming to debug and fix. Hopefully, we will be able to make a dent in this over the course of the pretest.