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Re: Cooperation between "bug masters" and "bug fixers"
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 28 May 2003 15:23:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cooperation between "bug masters" and "bug fixers"
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- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305221526230.18458-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu>
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?
>
The bug reports that you guys have been giving me has been useful.
Especially when you point to one I hadn't seen in the database.
> 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.
I'm really happy with the bug reports that I get. The one time I was
thinking I needed a smaller testcase one magically appeared.
Thanks for all of the hard work.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>