From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work? 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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:141195 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6533 :-) >> Does that really means that there are over 2000 unresolved bug reports >> in the tracker? > > Yes. > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/emacs.html Ouch. Has there been a policy discussion here about how the bug tracker should be handled? Having witnessed these discussions before, there are usually two sides of the argument: 1) All bugs, no matter how old, should be kept on the books until they have been replicated and fixed, because, one day, somebody may take a look at them and fix them. Even though they're for really obscure systems and the likelihood of that ever happening is small: Viz: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=244 2) Our bug-fixing manpower is limited, so we have to triage the bugs hard, and discard² bug reports that are old, or refer to systems we don't have access to, or are too nebulous, or are too "wouldn't it be nice if we reimplemented everything in JavaScript"-ey. That is, we should only keep bug reports on the book that will realistically be handled by someone within a reasonable time period. Projects seem to start off as 1), and then shift to 2) after three years, if they, at that point, can find some stooge actually willing to sift through the 2.3k bug reports that are outstanding. :-) --- IV) "Discard" here means, "mark in a way that doesn't come up in the default bug search/view". -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/