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Re: Cooperation between "bug masters" and "bug fixers"
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:00, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
>
> A couple of minutes ago, I wrote the following, triggering some more thoughts:
>
> > I get the feeling that in C++ land, bug fixing rate has really picked up
> > since we started to go through GNATS last fall.
>
> So here's two questions:
> 1/ Is this only my impression, or is this also something that those who
> really fix the bugs that we map feel?
I believe you are correct. I singled you out (in your absence) at the
GCC Summit for a thank-you; your classification of bugs has made it much
easier both to fix the bugs and to see which bugs are important.
> 2/ We never seemed to have talked about this: What, you "bug fixers", do
> you really need to fix a bug? I get the impression that reduced testcases
> are helpful, and that certainly having a bug database where you know what
> is and what is not a bug might be too.
Yes.
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