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Cooperation between "bug masters" and "bug fixers"
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:00:26 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Cooperation between "bug masters" and "bug fixers"
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?
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. I also think that the fact that we
started to mark regressions as such did something very beneficial to the
quality of releases.
However, I never really got feedback if this is what you need, or if there
is something else where you always thought "man, if these GNATS people
would just..."?
Let us know!
W.
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