Re: git bisect problems/ideas

> 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).