From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 7494@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7494: 24.0.50; Why is `prefix-region' in a library by itself?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:30:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtyj2y60a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7D21A23DCC44A8AB4FB9BF4786AB891@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:11:01 -0800")
Well, thank you all, Drew and Eli, for this fun discussion.
Are those little mishaps entertaining or what?
Stefan
>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > You are certainly very quick when it doesn't count. ;-)
>>
>> It's unfair to post such comments.
> You are silly to jump on such a comment (with a kidding smily yet!) as if it
> were a nasty complaint or criticism. For the record, I do not consider Stefan
> to act quickly only on bug reports that are unimportant.
>> The time it takes to respond to a bug report depends on any number of
>> factors, including (but not limited to) the maintainer's understanding
>> of the Emacs area where the bug happens, the time it takes to
>> reproduce the problem, the amount of free time (holidays etc.), you
>> name it. In this case, I'm guessing that it took about a few seconds
>> to find out that there's no such code anywhere in Emacs.
> And I, for my part, would have closed the mistaken report sooner than within 6
> minutes, if I had had a bug number to close.
> As soon as I posted the bug report I realized my mistake, but I had to wait
> until the bug showed up at http://debbugs.gnu.org/ to get the number. I
> specifically went to that site instead of waiting for the confirmation mail with
> the bug number (which takes even longer), in order to shorten the time before
> closing. IOW, I closed the bug as quickly as I knew how.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-27 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 22:48 bug#7494: 24.0.50; Why is `prefix-region' in a library by itself? Drew Adams
2010-11-27 2:10 ` Leo
2010-11-27 2:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-27 3:00 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-27 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-27 15:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-27 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-11-27 6:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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