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Re: Subjective opinion about PRs (Was: Re: c/7654: -Wenum-assignment: Warn if an enum is being assigned a non enum value)
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:34:58 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Subjective opinion about PRs (Was: Re: c/7654: -Wenum-assignment: Warn if an enum is being assigned a non enum value)
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> You've already identified this as low priority. Just set the priority
> to low (and category to change-request) (I thought I'd done this).
I just did it. My original way of setting the priority was somewhat more
drastic (closing it). I'll use the priority fields more in the future.
> > - We can leave this report open, but then we end up with _lots_ of such
> > requests that clutter up the data base. I have repeatedly stressed that
> > the number of open reports is so large that nobody seems to care about
> > individual reports anymore (well, this is not exactly true, but it is a
> > fact that until very recently, more than 1000 reports have not even been
> > looked at). If we don't filter the database such that the feature
> > requests that remain in it are few and "useful" (whatever that may be),
> > then nobody will look at it.
>
> This is normal. It is how people use bug tracking systems. Everything
> goes in and is then given a priority. Only by doing that is it possible
> to see what needs/can be done.
My view of things is that the database was more used as a "bug filing
system", rather than a bug _tracking_ system. We need to be better a
bringing the truly important reports to the attention to those who have
the knowledge to fix them.
> If anything you may want to review the list of GCC bug categories -
> better categorizing bug reports should make it possible for developers
> to better identify which bugs they need to work on.
Right. Another argument to finally switch to Bugzilla.
> Would you be so concerned if all 1000 open bugs were against Ada? :-)
:-) I'm a C++ hacker. I don't think I have ever touched an Ada report...
Wolfgang
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