Re: Futile bug reports?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:22:30 +0200
> 
> Maybe if it was easy for the maintainer to change the status to closed
> right with the answer message, that burden wouldn't be too large?  It
> could be just one keypress which inserts the right magic into the
> email.

As I wrote in my other mail, closing the report is only part of this,
and not the most useful part to the users.

> Then the maintainers could write "please try this patch", and then hit
> the `close report' key...

You can't close a report before you have a feedback from the user, at
least in some cases.