From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13565 invoked by alias); 17 Mar 2004 20:15:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13558 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 20:15:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp10.atl.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.246) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 20:15:45 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B3hRx-0002pf-00; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:15:37 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 575E14B104; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:15:44 -0500 (EST) To: carlton@kealia.com, mec.gnu@mindspring.com Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20040317201544.575E14B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:15:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-03.o/txt/msg00406.txt Message-ID: <20040317201500.ScaKCeEpaqVI7DbMXjkV9ukieY5vgaE0Evm0BRSlACs@z> Yes, I too wish there was a list of PR's fixed. I don't think it's all that helpful to the users. As a user of *gcc*, I look at their list of PR's fixed, and I say "yeah okay cool", and then I run my own before+after spin anyways. But as a tester of gdb, I enjoy looking at my "compare by gdb" tables and seeing all the FAIL->PASS transititions. > Of course, it helps that GCC has several people who try to make sure > that their bug database is as up to date as possible and organized in > such a way as to make it easy to figure out this information. Our bug database has several deficiencies. It's hard to make attachments (bugzilla is much easier). We ask for fields that are not important, like "severity", and do not ask for information that is critical, like "what compiler are you using". We need a page that says "here is the Unix 'script' command, please attach a typescript with your bug report". And then there's all that nifty milestone stuff. > Whereas you're the only person seriously looking at the GDB bug database, > and you're also focused (perhaps more focused) on regression testing. Mark K and Andrew C and Daniel J and David C spend a lot of time in there too. Michael C