Re: How does the Emacs bug tracker work?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6533
>
> :-)
>
>>> Does that really means that there are over 2000 unresolved bug reports
>>> in the tracker?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/rrd/emacs.html
>
> Ouch.
>
> Has there been a policy discussion here about how the bug tracker should
> be handled?  Having witnessed these discussions before, there are
> usually two sides of the argument:
>
> 1) All bugs, no matter how old, should be kept on the books until they
> have been replicated and fixed, because, one day, somebody may take a
> look at them and fix them.  Even though they're for really obscure
> systems and the likelihood of that ever happening is small:
>
> Viz:  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=244

We do not support alpha*-dec-osf* anymore, so this particular bug
report can be closed.