Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-26 Thread Mark Mitchell
Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Steven Bosscher wrote: > >> The bigger issue here, is that people seem to be using Bugzilla as a >> kind-of TODO list for things may some day work on, but probably will > > I don't see any problem with that. Me neither. In fact, I think there's a lo

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread David Daney
NightStrike wrote: On 12/19/07, Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's take a bug as an example case: http://gcc.gnu.org/23835 Here, there is a bug report about a huge compile time increase. The release manager decided that this was not a release blocker for GCC 4.2. So it was m

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread NightStrike
On 12/19/07, Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's take a bug as an example case: http://gcc.gnu.org/23835 > > Here, there is a bug report about a huge compile time increase. The > release manager decided that this was not a release blocker for GCC > 4.2. So it was marked P4, and it

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:17:00PM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 4:32 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you want an additional > > list of bugs that are being actively worked on (and labelled as such), > > that's fine (although I have no idea how th

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Dec 19, 2007 4:32 PM, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:59:51AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > > The current list of "All regressions" should be a list of bugs that > > people are actively trying to resolve, preferably before the release > > of GCC

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:59:51AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > The current list of "All regressions" should be a list of bugs that > people are actively trying to resolve, preferably before the release > of GCC 4.3. No, it should be exactly what it says it is. If you want an additional list

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-19 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 19/12/2007, Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The current list of "All regressions" should be a list of bugs that > people are actively trying to resolve, preferably before the release > of GCC 4.3. Instead, it is a mix of high-activity bug reports and bug > reports where even the t

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread David Daney
Joe Buck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:25:19AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > >>> Ok. I did check the GCC bugzilla help pages, and they don't mention >>> SUSPENDED >>> at all :-) >>> > > I wrote: > >> Patches welcome, as they say. >> > > Never mind; see > http://gcc.gnu.org/bu

RE: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Weddington, Eric
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Bosscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:00 PM > To: GCC > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever > > Maybe it is just me, but I find it very annoying to have to wade > th

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Joe Buck
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:25:19AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > > Ok. I did check the GCC bugzilla help pages, and they don't mention > > SUSPENDED > > at all :-) I wrote: > Patches welcome, as they say. Never mind; see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/management.html for when to use SUSPENDED.

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Steven Bosscher wrote: > The bigger issue here, is that people seem to be using Bugzilla as a > kind-of TODO list for things may some day work on, but probably will I don't see any problem with that. It records known issues. We can then use the existing fields, or create n

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Joe Buck
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:25:19AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Joe Buck wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:11:11AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > > > > So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old > > > > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSP

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Joe Buck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:11:11AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > > > So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old > > > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSPENDED. Start shooting. > > > > I think this would be a big mistake t

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Joe Buck
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:11:11AM +, Paul Brook wrote: > > So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old > > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSPENDED. Start shooting. > > I think this would be a big mistake to reuse an existing state for this. But this is pretty

Re: Regression count, and how to keep bugs around forever

2007-12-18 Thread Paul Brook
> So I'm asking for a policy here that says when it is OK to resolve old > bug without progress as WONTFIX or SUSPENDED. Start shooting. I think this would be a big mistake to reuse an existing state for this. If/when someone does start caring about that particular feature it'll be impossible fo