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Re: Unanswered Emacs Problem Reports 40+ Months
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Unanswered Emacs Problem Reports 40+ Months |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:47:35 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> We're not talking about closing the bugs, but confirming that the bug is
> still relevant. Tho, in the absence of a reply by the bug-submitter
> within a month (say), we could also decide to close the bug.
I imagine most responses will be of two kinds:
1) No reply. Then what?
2) A slightly annoyed "yes, of course my wishlist/doc bug/whatever"
still applies, didn't you read it/test it/try my patch?".
The useful replies I expect to be a small minority ("It was fixed in
24.1", "I misunderstood and this is not actually a bug", etc.)
So I expect the result will be mostly be to annoy the bug reporters.
> The idea is to ask the bug-submitter's help.
Well, ok.
> I think this classification can be made automatically/heuristically
> by checking if the last message was from a developer.
I'm not optimistic that an automatic process can tell us much, but I
guess we'll see.