Re: Close all [most] SPARC PRs?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:47:40 -0500 (EST)
>>> From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> I really like this procedure.  Blindly closing the PRs should not be
> our first choice if we can do better, and what Michael suggests _is_,
> IMHO, better.

I don't think it should put too much emphasis on this:

> I tried your test case (or something similar to your test case)
>   and it works for me. 

(<eli>doco?</eli> :-)

Andrew