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Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:26 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Cross-post and follow-up to help-debbugs.
Tassilo Horn wrote:
>> May I suggest searching for subject keywords before filing a bug? Or
>> looking at the N newest bugs.
>
> Yes, you may, but as long as checking related/duplicate bugs is not a
> part of the usual bug filing procedure (aka M-x report-emacs-bug), it
> won't have an effect, I guess.
I thought it was basic courtesy to do a search before reporting a bug.
But this seems to have disappeared, along with "report your bug to the
right address", and "give a complete, self-contained description of
the problem".
> It would be great if M-x report-emacs-bug would query for "Bug keywords"
> first (e.g., tty cursor column), then somehow query the bug database and
> show a buffer with possibly related bug subjects including links to the
> bugtracker. Then a user should be able to either say "nope, I have a
> different bug" and file a new one, or attach to one of the listed bugs.
If you think that would be great, maybe you would like to write it.
> I don't know if debbugs has some interface for querying the database, or
> a better output format than the result html page. But even that doesn't
> look awfully hard to parse to rip out the link to the bug and its
> subject...
Great, so it won't be long before someone writes this feature then.
- Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/17
- Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/17
- Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column), Tassilo Horn, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones,
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column), Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column), Andrew W. Nosenko, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones (was: Re: bug#7419: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw positions cursor in empty lines on the second column), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/18
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones, tomas, 2010/11/19
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones, Glenn Morris, 2010/11/19
- Re: Searching bugs before filing new ones, tomas, 2010/11/21