From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug statistics Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1focf1eb1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87aaqjoe8b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fx09n3qx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277672973 3204 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2010 21:09:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 27 23:09:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSz6U-0005tD-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:09:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSz6K-0006lT-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37535 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSz6E-0006kq-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSz6D-0000hP-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42211) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OSz6B-0000gy-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSz64-0005iC-3r; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87fx09n3qx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126469 Archived-At: Sure, you can and should try to reduce the number of open bugs in Emacs, but I think you're going to end up needing to accept 4-figure counts just like everybody else. It is not inevitable. The number of bugs remaining unfixed is a matter of our priorities. We can give priority to adding features (which tends to make more bugs) or we can give it to fixing bugs.