[Python-Dev] More Non-Bugs (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:21:47 +0200

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:05:06PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Thomas Wouters wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:16:40PM +0300, Moshe Zadka wrote:

> > Bug 110651 -- re.compile('[\200-\400]') segfaults -- it doens't for me

> You can close bugs now, right, Moshe?

I can, but to tell the truth, after what Tim posted here about closing bugs, I'd appreciate a few more eyeballs before I close them.

That's why I forward the message to the original submittor. The list of bugs is now so insanely large that it's pretty unlikely a large number of eyeballs will caress them. Marking them closed (or atleast marking them something, like moving them to the right catagory) and forwarding the summary to the submittor is likely to have them re-check the bug.

Tim was talking about 'closing it without reason', without knowing why it should be closed. 'Works for me' is a valid reason to close the bug, if you have the same (kind of) platform, can't reproduce the bug and have a strong suspicion it's already been fixed. (Which is pretty likely, if the bugreport is old.)

BTW: Does anyone know if SF has an e-mail notification of bugs, similar to that of patches? If so, enabling it to send mail to a mailing list similar to patches@python.org would be cool -- it would enable much more peer review.

I think not, but I'm not sure. It's probably up to the project admins to set that, but I think if they did, they'd have set it before. (Then again, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to set it, yet... I bet the current list is going to be quickly cut down in size, and I'm not sure if I want to see all the notifications! :) But once it's running, it would be swell.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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