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Re: Mail that shuld not be sent here
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Mail that shuld not be sent here |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:24:46 +0900 |
Richard M Stallman writes:
> But even most of those people have no reason to be interested in the
> bug tracker messages for any particular bug. Usually only the person
> who reported it and the person who fixes it are interested in the bug
> tracker status.
That turns out not to be true. (1) Maintainers are always interested
in the status of all bugs. There is a difference between committing a
patch and closing the bug. (2) People who are not really paying
attention to thread because they have a workaround will occasionally
wake up and say "don't close that, you didn't fix/broke my use case."
(3) In an active project there will be a large and growing gap between
total bugs and open bugs. Seeing the flow of activity allows people
in general to see that work is being done at a reasonable rate,
despite this steady accumulation of open issues.
These cases notwithstanding, I agree that it's a bad idea for
bug-gnu-emacs because Emacs is unlikely to change to a tracker-centric
workflow soon, but it's not as obviously a bad idea as your sweeping
statements would have it.
Re: Mail that shuld not be sent here, Don Armstrong, 2008/06/01