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Re: Basic questions about the triage process
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Andrew Hyatt |
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Re: Basic questions about the triage process |
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Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:40:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (darwin) |
John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> Andrew Hyatt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 1) How to identify the bugs to be triaged. I actually don't know the set of
>> bugs you are interested in. All the open ones? Just the ones blocking emacs
>> 25? If I'm using the debbugs package, what's the command I use to display
>> just the set we're interested in?
>
> There are really two sets of bugs we'd like to pay attention to:
>
> 1. Those blocking the release of Emacs 25. Clearly, we can't release until
> this reaches zero.
>
> 2. All the open bugs, especially the oldest ones. If they don't reproduce
> against emacs-25 anymore, we'd like to mark them closed as fixed in that
> release.
>
> #1 is a fairly small list, so just getting more information on those bugs so
> that the developers know how to proceed next is what's important.
>
> #2 is a large list, but would help out the Emacs project by clearing out
> things we don't need to pay attention to anymore.
>
>> Also, what if it does reproduce? I guess just a reply saying that it
>> reproduces? Or does it need to be tagged in some way?
>
> A comment would be valuable, and if what you saw still matches the description
> of the problem.
>
>> Sorry, maybe there was a document that explains this all, and I missed it.
>> If there's isn't such a document, I think it'd be pretty helpful.
>
> Perhaps we do need a targeted document for on-boarding bug herders. If, while
> you're learning this process, you could keep some notes on what helped you to
> get started, Andrew, that could become the start of such a document.
I've put together my notes into a file I stuck in the admin section.
I'm attaching it as a patch. Feedback would be welcome, of course. I'm
guessing there's a few other things we'd like to put into this document
as well, but I won't attempt to go beyond just the basic triage
procedure we've discussed in this thread.
0001-Add-a-file-detailing-how-to-triage-bugs.patch
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- Basic questions about the triage process, Andrew Hyatt, 2015/12/28
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Michael Albinus, 2015/12/28
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, John Wiegley, 2015/12/28
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process,
Andrew Hyatt <=
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Andrew Hyatt, 2015/12/29
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/30
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Noam Postavsky, 2015/12/30
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/30
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Michael Albinus, 2015/12/31
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/31
- Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Michael Albinus, 2015/12/31
Re: Basic questions about the triage process, Xue Fuqiao, 2015/12/28