Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-17 Thread Chris Rutter
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Stone wrote: > How much trouble would it be to add another category--"unreproduced" or > somesuch? Yes, or `observational', `possible', that sort of thing. I agree. -- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-16 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously David Welton wrote: > > Sounds like an interesting idea - are you going to come up with some > > code to demonstrate how things work? > If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan. > It already

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:04:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait: > If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan. > It already scans the BTS database twice a day anyway. Not to mention, that a list of this kind does already exist here : http://master.debian.org/~hertzo

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Welton wrote: > Sounds like an interesting idea - are you going to come up with some > code to demonstrate how things work? If people really want this I guess I could trivially add it to bugscan. It already scans the BTS database twice a day anyway. Wichert. --

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:55:43AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote: > I've had another early-morning idea. I think a metric called a "bug > index" should be invented. It would be calculated like this: every > severity of bug would be given a weight, say: Sounds like an interesting idea - are you goin

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:31:33PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > - not sure you entirely believe bug report, but want to leave > bug report open anyway, just in case. bug reports aren't > always accurate, and it is possible that the reporter > made a mistake, but cannot be verified as such > by

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:31:33PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > - forgetting the bug exists - does this occur? I thought Brian White's occasional "nag" messages were very effective in this case. However several developers threaten to resign if anyone ever suggests they were a good idea on this list.