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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
Cc: cagney@gnu.org,gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Close all [most] SPARC PRs?
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3c97k428.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218214740.D8E584B367@berman.michael-chastain.com> (mec.gnu@mindspring.com)

> 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.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-19  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-18 21:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-02-19  5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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