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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> 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).