Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-09 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 08/05/16 23:13, Oleg Endo wrote: There are nearly 10,000 still unresolved bugs in Bugzilla, almost half of which are New, and a third Unconfirmed, so I'm sure any effort to help reduce the number is of value and appreciated. That's exactly what prompted me to ask. There's such a vast number

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-09 Thread Jeff Law
On 05/08/2016 04:13 PM, Oleg Endo wrote: Sometimes there is. Before randomly closing any bugs because they are too old, one should at least have a look at them and see if they're still an issue etc. Often things would've been fixed along the way, but not all of them. When this is the case I do

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-09 Thread Jeff Law
On 05/08/2016 04:03 PM, David Wohlferd wrote: On 4/28/2016 9:41 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by events ove

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-08 Thread Oleg Endo
On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 15:03 -0700, David Wohlferd wrote: > On 4/28/2016 9:41 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: > > On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: > > > As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking > > > thru the > > > bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been f

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-08 Thread David Wohlferd
On 4/28/2016 12:23 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-08 Thread David Wohlferd
On 4/28/2016 9:41 AM, Martin Sebor wrote: On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still open. Is clo

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-05-08 Thread David Wohlferd
On 4/28/2016 2:01 AM, Richard Biener wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still o

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: > As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs > for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by > events over the years, but the bug is still open. > > Is closing some of these old b

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-04-28 Thread Martin Sebor
On 04/28/2016 01:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by events over the years, but the bug is still open. Is closing some of these old bugs of any value?

Re: Bug maintenance

2016-04-28 Thread Richard Biener
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:35 AM, David Wohlferd wrote: > As part of the work I've done on inline asm, I've been looking thru the bugs > for it. There appear to be a number that have been fixed or overtaken by > events over the years, but the bug is still open. > > Is closing some of these old bug