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From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
To: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Close all [most] SPARC PRs?
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218214740.D8E584B367@berman.michael-chastain.com> (raw)

> Given that the SPARC code has been effectively rewritten, should all the 
> old sparc PRs be closed?  I think so.

I like to reply to such PR's like this:

  Hello,

  I'm working through old gdb PR's and I've come to your PR gdb/NNNN,
  filed in December 1998.

  The Sparc code has recently been rewritten and many bugs were fixed.
  I tried your test case (or something similar to your test case)
  and it works for me.  (Or leave this line out if you just can't).
  Can you please try a CVS version of gdb or a recent snapshot of gdb
  and let me know if it works for you.

  Michael C
  GDB QA Guy

Attach that message in a change from "open" -> "feedback".
Wait 30 days.

About 80% of cases, nothing happens for 30 days.  Then close the PR,
with another little note: "I haven't heard anything for 30 days.
I am closing the PR.  If you have problems with a more recent version
of gdb, please file another PR."

About 15% of cases, the original submitter writes back sooner and
confirms that the original bug is closed.  Then close the PR.

About 5% of cases, the original submitter says something which indicates
that we shouldn't close the PR.

Mark K already did a 30-day routine on a bunch of Solaris PR's,
and the 30 days ran out, and he closed the PR's.

Anyways, that's how I like to do it.

Michael C


             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-18 21:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
2004-02-19  5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-20 16:55   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-20 17:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-20 18:10 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-02-20 18:27 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-02-18 20:18 Andrew Cagney

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