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Re: Dealing with emacs21 (and related) bugs [was: Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer]



On 15/05/2014 17:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> For this concrete case, might I suggest following course of action:
> 
>> 1. ping all submitters of emacs21 (and related) bugs to test against 
>> recent emacs (at a minimum emacs23 from wheezy) and deal with the bug as 
>> needed
>> 2. if no response within a reasonable amount of time (3 months?) 
>> mass-close them
> 
>> According to my script this applies to 162 bugs, of which some are in 
>> the 5 (five) digit range and only 1 (one) bug number is higher than 
>> 500000. List attached.
> 
> If everyone reading this who uses Emacs (probably a lot of people!) takes
> a moment to do a bit of triage on the list you posted (thank you!), we
> could make most of this go away, actually.  I started doing that since I
> was curious how easy it would be and was able to resolve five or six bugs
> as previously fixed in just a few minutes.
> 
> I'll do a bit more of that this morning before I have to go do other work.
> 


Completely at random, I tested this one:
 • #128748 [w|  |  ] [emacs21] emacs21: M-x word-count (from xemacs) is
missing?

It happens that this one is solved in emacs24, not in emacs23.

What should be done: reassign to emacs23 (which obviously will never fix
it), or just close it?

Sincerely,
-- 
Jean-Christophe Dubacq

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