From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The art of closing bug reports Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:18:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <3qliw7eyn3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310260744 30452 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2011 01:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 03:19:00 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 1Qfifh-00083o-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:18:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qfifg-00034e-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfifQ-00034D-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfifO-0008UL-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:18:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:42553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfifM-0008Tr-Ee; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:18:36 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so1119816ewy.0 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:18:35 -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; bh=c41khT3VTTs/8b/5e55MtZoglIng08+c5sfUgJco118=; b=txwo2orDru1nsjJJaaGq7qmu9YnHW5Cbdp/miUf60ipVnIAlFHsIV/6StlhGpA1hhq agQ0qYgUu4Os1qT7yQem4codYeru+aQ1uMW1yzD1VzpHuzNbu4zqd5lgmPJFhpgSYs7e TK1rtImJOeQCwtonFyAkz/Xyn1Mt/OzReLUfU= Original-Received: by 10.213.22.74 with SMTP id m10mr1070179ebb.117.1310260715321; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.114.16 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 18:18:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3qliw7eyn3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:141876 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 03:02, Glenn Morris wrote: > >>> I am a bit disturbed by bug reports that are closed without much >>> effort trying to understand if the bugs are still there. > > There is also an "art" to opening bug reports. It's well documented, and > many people manage to do it. I'm sorry to say, but some bug reports are > of such low quality that they essentially have no value. Leaving them > open does nothing except dilute attention away from other reports where > progress can be made. Since I happen to manage many bug reports myself I have some experience with this. I close bug reports that I can't reproduce and get no feedback on. But I do not do that if I just do not have time to reproduce them. Then I just leave them since they might be valuable further on.