Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juanma Barranquero writes:

 > A strong tendency, with little impact IMHO because it seems that most
 > people does a very cursory "specific search for
 > the-bug-you-are-about-to-report". At least that's my feeling...

This is true (but debbugs.el looks like it will help a lot!)  However,
my (limited) experience with our Roundup, and (vicarious) experience
with Python's suggests that improvements in search technology can
dramatically increase the rate of people searching.

 > I would really like something that brought to attention stagnated
 > bug reports.

Well, IIRC you've got about 1500 of them; why not just
(debbugs-get-bug (random 2600))? <wink/>