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Re: Power of the G++ test suite
> There was some discussion given to feeding the lists into a PRMS-style
> tracking system so that proposed patches such as new testcase entries
> could be assigned to an individual or group for consideration.
IMHO, this is the way to go. The regression test suite should be just
that: testing whether things that used to work break when code is
changed. It is not, in my opinion, useful to do bug tracking. I know
some people disagree.
So, if we had an actual bug tracking system, people would be satisfied
to see that their report is indeed recorded, and perhaps acted
upon. It would also help the maintainers, since closed reports would
not be in the way. I believe there is plenty of experience in bug
tracking from various Linux distributions, glibc, etc. We'd just need
somebody do it.
My 0.02 EUR (still lacking the Euro symbol :-)
Martin