From: Aaron S. Meurer <asmeurer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:15:15 GMT
Subject: Re: git bisect problems/ideas
Message-ID: <0F4E18EC-E67D-4C3E-BB5C-C8D8BA326C1D@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3nukqn8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

So if I care about this issue I should keep bumping it until it gets fixed?

Aaron Meurer

On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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).