Suggestion for a new GNATS policy

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> I'll reiterate that if we put these testcases in the testsuite, XFAILed
> and with cross-references from testcase to bug number and from bug to
> testcase, they would be automatically tested by many people on many
> platforms and an accidental fix would be noticed immediately as an XPASS
> when the patch accidentally fixing the bug is tested.  In that case the
> keyword "monitored" could be used to mean "there is an XFAILed testcase in
> the testsuite for this bug, and it isn't specific to a rarely tested
> platform".

I had thought so, too, but I have changed my mind on this. We now have a 
quite active community of people just working on gnats, why bother them 
with the procedures of using CVS, make check, etc? I think we have 
successfully "modularized" the process into bug confirmation/reducting/
tracking on the one hand, and fixing on the other hand. Mixing these 
processes just makes things harder for everyone, and in particular raises 
the entry level for newcomers. I think the present process is pretty good.

W.

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