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Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work?


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work?
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:15:58 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Then there's the oodles of misguided feature requests like (at random):
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6891
>
> which doesn't sound very useful, and is also incompatible with the
> current return values, since (string-to-number "0x45" 16) today
> returns 0, so it should be dismissed instead of letting it linger on.

Most such bugs are already marked wishlist; unless the request is truly
outlandish, letting them "linger on" is not a big deal, since they are
easy to exclude in searches.

Similarly, we have lots of bugs tagged unreproducible and/or wontfix.
We haven't been closing these, but if that bothers people, we could
institute a policy of closing such bugs if there is no traffic after,
say, a year.  I don't care, personally.

As for the rest of the old bugs, many are "long tail" issues that are
difficult and/or time-consuming to debug and fix.  Hopefully, we will be
able to make a dent in this over the course of the pretest.



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