From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:32:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zkkzfiz5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309457658 9296 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 18:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 20:14:14 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 1QcLkk-00020r-3n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcLki-0004cM-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcKAy-0001x0-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcKAx-0006Ge-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:35557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcKAw-0006Dx-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:33:10 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pz0-f41.google.com with SMTP id 4so2485014pzk.0 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:33:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/1c2IT4trj5971t+C51ltM2NExqs225zMZunJIip0Bs=; b=N1ZIvIr2+XyFsgItd1m2fma2kWQJPsYctQvxnIDKqWdS1FuDlWxlnLSQjvxwzSCnCr kBzi3HCgr4pBU5WRuoQlTRjemPFXW6N5PlLR4sDJn5LQ9lILrYbf9UqcDZwHb2nS+j/t tZCEO/wUzR1H5g73ln2Ih/OPnfwqSX9kKhQic= Original-Received: by 10.142.118.24 with SMTP id q24mr979523wfc.392.1309451590057; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.50.7 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:32:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zkkzfiz5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 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:141259 Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:15, Chong Yidong wrote: > 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. Yes, please. I agreethat Wontfixes are perhaps valuables as documentation, but closing them will not affect that. As for Unreproducibles, if no additional information has been forthcoming in a year, its likely that noone is really interested in pursuing the issue (or perhaps it was fixed somehow and nobody noticed or reported it). > As for the rest of the old bugs, many are "long tail" issues that are > difficult and/or time-consuming to debug and fix. Yes. There are lots of bugs where there's a consensus that the problem is real (though sometimes not what the OP reported), and then the discussion sort of dwindles. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma