From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aaron S. Meurer" Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:15:15 -0700 Message-ID: <0F4E18EC-E67D-4C3E-BB5C-C8D8BA326C1D@gmail.com> References: <855249CA-A006-475C-8F96-EFD614795064@gmail.com> <54DED602-0BA7-4462-AC00-1DDEEF83068C@gmail.com> <7vd3nukqn8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christian Couder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 19 20:15:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfdVA-0003xI-G2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:15:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753459Ab1ASTPX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:15:23 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:48641 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753204Ab1ASTPW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:15:22 -0500 Received: by pxi15 with SMTP id 15so216581pxi.19 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:15:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=4uow3UVswvZN5IqMJMzGz/Z04Nl7iYGyi7ESg5zJma8=; b=MPz8/0dsBpW37K0pfETXsLt5IUgYvKvlnmh8592PcasFW7HF+naQgiJ9i43GVDM8Bv E0gjyZdl1sZDKn7TXY2o/iDaAEnA5hJK8GV/30EQfiq138sVm9nncCkOBFJXKQsIyFyN OB1X1tysqrN/A36vrUIbOLFp1f/wXfL0jVO48= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=CzvoNIc1Ml3OykCK2OIzWGK9iCyOAXyj744diilwV6kWopmkCJeClKuWNSIGCH0N6P qubH7fV9IGkrVkWI+U1dDA0TZm9t6Y/zMPiuPLnjDIemvoCB33j4js0V64kz1ZO4GQqW N93mm18GhM9cPGWp4s+HLX2LtbjPLCJDjGEuM= Received: by 10.142.51.7 with SMTP id y7mr1076058wfy.358.1295464522412; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.3] (dhcp-baca-230.resnet.nmt.edu [129.138.31.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x18sm9971066wfa.23.2011.01.19.11.15.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:15:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7vd3nukqn8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: So if I care about this issue I should keep bumping it until it gets fixed? Aaron Meurer On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > >> Well, bugs are usually fixed within days after they have been >> reported. Otherwise they are usually documented in the code or in the >> documentation or in the test suite (with test_expect_failure). >> >> For the rest we rely on people remembering what happened and on >> people's mailing list searching skills ;-) > > Not really. > > What we do is to take advantage of the fact that issues people do care > about are important ones, and others that nobody cares about are not worth > pursuing. > > In a sense, "people forgetting" is a lot more important than "people > remembering" to filter unimportant issues (issues that are so unimportant > that even the original complainer does not bother to come back and > re-raise it).