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Re: Options menu is broken on CVS
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Options menu is broken on CVS |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:41:54 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:02:05 -0400
>
> Let's take it as a reminder that when we commit a fix, we should make sure
> we describe the bug it fixes, either in comments in the code (when
> possible/meaningful) or in the ChangeLog entry.
Alas, there's no machinery in GNU coding/development standards to
record such information. In Emacs, we don't even have a bug
repository to which one can refer, like "see bug #12345" or some such
(a reference to the mail-list thread might serve as a replacement, but
only if the problem was discussed publicly in enough detail). A
description of a bug with enough info to reproduce it later could take
a lot of text, and it's IMHO impractical to put all that text in the
source files or in the logs.
In addition, there are situations where you don't have a good place to
put a comment, e.g. if the fix was to _delete_ something.
> Of course, if the old code was just plain wrong it's not necessary.
``Plain wrong'' is in the eyes of the beholder. Such judgment calls
are part of the problem: what's ``plain wrong and doesn't need any
explanation'' so some, is a mystery to others.
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, (continued)
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2005/09/09
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/09/09
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2005/09/09
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/08
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, İsmail Dönmez, 2005/09/08
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/07
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/09/07
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2005/09/08
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Stefan Monnier, 2005/09/09
- Bug repository, Bill Wohler, 2005/09/09
- Re: Bug repository, Miles Bader, 2005/09/10
- Re: Bug repository, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/10
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/10
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/09/10
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/11
- Refering to bug reports (was: Options menu is broken on CVS), Reiner Steib, 2005/09/11
- Re: Refering to bug reports (was: Options menu is broken on CVS), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/09/12
- Re: Options menu is broken on CVS, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/09/11