Re: Bug purge

[Rik]

On 11/23/2016 04:14 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> Hi Rik,
> Thanks, That helped. Still I am clicking through many open bugs that
> are already commented. Is there a way to filter bugs/discussion that
> haven't been modified since  16.11.16?
> I tried the "additional constraint" and used Any, not modified since
> 16.11.2016, but I get an SQL error.

Maybe you should report this to the bug list for savannah itself
(https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=addsupport&group=administration).

--Rik

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> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 11/19/2016 09:05 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 11/16/16
>>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Now that version 4.2.0 has been released, we can start purging the bug list
>>>> on savannah.  Many of the bugs are reported against old versions of Octave
>>>> and may no longer be relevant.  The work to be done is to go through each
>>>> bug report and attempt to reproduce the issue on 4.2.0 using whatever
>>>> sample code is in the report.  This is obviously more work than one
>>>> individual can handle so I'm asking anyone who has some spare time to try
>>>> and tackle a few reports.  If you don't have read/write privileges for
>>>> savannah, then just leave a comment in the report saying what you tried and
>>>> whether it passed or failed.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rik
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Rik,
>>>
>>> I am trying to give a hand, but I am not so good at filtering bugs and
>>> already spend an hour searching for a bug too purge.
>>> Does anybody has a procedure to do this? I see Rik, Mike and Harmut
>>> checking lots of bugs. How do you do it?
>>>
>> Juan,
>>
>> Thank you for wanting to help.  You need to use the "+ Selection Criteria"
>> expansion menu and then set the criteria for "Open" bugs.
>>
>> To do so, first open the Bugs web page on savannah.  At the top are a
>> series of links, "Main", "Homepage", "Download", etc.  To the left of the
>> link "Main", you will see the word "Group".  Just under that will be "+
>> Selection Criteria".  Click to open,  In the "Open/Closed" listbox, select
>> only "Open" and then hit Apply button on the far right.
>>
>> Now you will see only bugs which are still Open.
>>
>> --Rik
>>
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