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From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ices.utexas.edu>
To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jkazos@vt.edu>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: your RESOLVED->CLOSED changes
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305230942060.13907-100000@gandalf.ices.utexas.edu> (raw)


>> I would also like to posit that quite a number of bugs will then stay
>> RESOLVED indefinitely. If someone, say, fixes a bug on mn10200 or some
>> other obscure target, who's going to double-check after a release and 
>> put in into CLOSED?
>
> Doesn't that prove the lack of QA, and demonstrate the need for it? If a 
> fix hasn't been checked, it *should* remain resolved-but-unclosed 
> indefinately until someone checks it. Otherwise, why bother checking 
> fixes at all?

Yes and no. Yes, because in a sense you're right but it's just a fact that 
we're developer starved and don't have enough people working on the rarer 
platforms.

No, since at least in principle each patch should go in with a testcase, 
so the very same developer will re-check every time he runs the testsuite.
The initial check whether a patch is sane is done by peer review.

W.


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             reply	other threads:[~2003-05-23 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-23 14:55 Wolfgang Bangerth [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-23 15:29 Volker Reichelt
2003-05-23 16:18 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-05-23 19:23   ` Wolfgang Bangerth
2003-05-23 19:37   ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-23  7:39 Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23  8:55 ` Giovanni Bajo
2003-05-23  9:36   ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-05-23 10:19     ` Giovanni Bajo
2003-05-23 14:18       ` Wolfgang Bangerth
2003-05-23 15:47         ` Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23 19:23           ` Wolfgang Bangerth
2003-05-23 19:46             ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-23 19:56               ` Wolfgang Bangerth
2003-05-23 20:03                 ` DJ Delorie
2003-05-23 20:14                   ` Wolfgang Bangerth
     [not found]       ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305230908020.22023-100000@gandalf.ices.utex as.edu>
2003-05-23 14:19         ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2003-05-23 15:41       ` Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23 15:33   ` Nathanael Nerode
2003-05-23  9:43 ` Joseph S. Myers
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305231035220.4682@kern.srcf.societies.cam.a c.uk>
2003-05-23  9:53   ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2003-05-23 15:05 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-05-23 15:54   ` Nathanael Nerode
     [not found] <20030523062858.322.qmail@sources.redhat.com>
2003-05-23  6:59 ` Giovanni Bajo

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