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Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:28:53 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't see why those things need to all be fixed before we start
> the pretest.
>
> Because we aim to make a release with all known bugs fixed.
How can we do that without some kind of bug tracking system?
And who decides what is a "bug" and what is a "missing feature" or
"enhancement request".
May I suggest that you (RMS) add _all_ bugs that you want to be fixed
before the release to FOR-RELEASE, and then change the above to:
"Because we aim to make a release with all the bugs listed in
FOR-RELEASE fixed."
Or even better, we should make a file etc/KNOWN_BUGS which we can keep
up-to-date with known, unresolved bugs.
Then we can _at any time_ decide that the bugs listed in KNOWN_BUGS
are not severe enough to justify delaying the release.
And we should distribute KNOWN_BUGS with the release, so users can
look in that file to see if we already know about a bug (M-x
report-emacs-bug could point users to that file).
> It makes no sense to postpone debugging the bugs we know about
> in order to discover more bugs.
Who's talking about postponing debugging of known bugs?
So I disagree! Some bugs are more severe than others, and one of the
most severe has yet to be resolved -- the more people who test
the software, the better the chance of narrowing in on that bug.
So let's start the pretest NOW!
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, (continued)
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Chong Yidong, 2005/12/14
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/14
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/14
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/15
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Kim F. Storm, 2005/12/16
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/16
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Chong Yidong, 2005/12/16
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/17
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Chong Yidong, 2005/12/17
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Kim F. Storm, 2005/12/14
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Pretest? [was: Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object], Nick Roberts, 2005/12/10
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/11
- Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Ken Raeburn, 2005/12/07
Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2005/12/06
Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/06
Re: bootstrap problem with union Lisp_Object, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/06