Re: Followup on solved bug reports.

[Mats Bengtsson]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 13.39, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Han-Wen,
> >
> > Another of all these quick bug fixes! Thanks for your hard work!
> >
> > It would be great if you (and others who fix bugs in CVS) could also
> > send a reply to the original bug report that the problem has been fixed.
> > I seem to recall that you sent the same request to me and others some
> > years ago and that you also followed it yourself. I'm not sure if it's
> > time limitations or that you expect Erik to handle the official
> > responses to all bug reports that has changed these good habits.
>
>
> It's because of me, I guess. The idea is that I verify the bugfixes 
> independently of Han-Wen before announcing them. This can sometimes cause 
> delays. 
>
>
> > This information is useful both for the user who wrote the bug report,
> > for people who search for information on the mailing list archives and
> > just see a large number of unanswered bug reports and for me and others
> > who try to provide relevant answers on the lists and documentation
> > updates, for example.
>
>
> I think the difference also is, that we now use the database rather than the 
> mailing list when looking at bugs.
Yes, but it seems that Han-Wen and Jan fix lots of problems long before
you have had the time to even include them in the database.

> During the previous big bugfix round, I
> reported the fixes as new message threads instead of replying, just for my 
> own convenience. If you like, I can stop this behaviour and reply to the 
> reports instead.

That would be a clear benefit for people who search for a problem in the
mailing list archives. It would help much more if the thread ends with
an email saying that the problem was solved in a particular version than
if this information appears in a completely separate mail thread.

   /Mats