Re: Bug purge

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 11/16/16
>
> All,
>
> Now that version 4.2.0 has been released, we can start purging the bug list
> on savannah.  Many of the bugs are reported against old versions of Octave
> and may no longer be relevant.  The work to be done is to go through each
> bug report and attempt to reproduce the issue on 4.2.0 using whatever
> sample code is in the report.  This is obviously more work than one
> individual can handle so I'm asking anyone who has some spare time to try
> and tackle a few reports.  If you don't have read/write privileges for
> savannah, then just leave a comment in the report saying what you tried and
> whether it passed or failed.
>
> Thanks,
> Rik
>
>

Hi Rik,

I am trying to give a hand, but I am not so good at filtering bugs and
already spend an hour searching for a bug too purge.
Does anybody has a procedure to do this? I see Rik, Mike and Harmut
checking lots of bugs. How do you do it?