bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-11 Thread Joe Buck
Hi, http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/management.html says that bugs in WAITING state for more than three months, waiting for information on how to reproduce the bug, can be closed, but it is unclear what the "closed" state should be. The description of WORKSFORME sounds closest: we don't know how to repro

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Barada
> The description of WORKSFORME sounds closest: we don't know how to > reproduce the bug. Should that be used? The only other choices > are FIXED (wrong), DUPLICATE (wrong), INVALID (we don't know that), > or WONTFIX (we're not saying we won't fix it if we get a testcase). > > This came up beca

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Peter Barada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Saddest is that is that in a batch of various related bug closings, the > blanket comment "M68k/ColdFire is not a primary platform - CLOSED". That should not happen, they should only get their target milestone bumped. I cannot remember having seen any c

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-12 Thread Eric Botcazou
> > Saddest is that is that in a batch of various related bug closings, the > > blanket comment "M68k/ColdFire is not a primary platform - CLOSED". > > That should not happen, they should only get their target milestone > bumped. I cannot remember having seen any case of a bug being _closed_ > jus

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-12 Thread Joe Buck
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:41:08PM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > > Saddest is that is that in a batch of various related bug closings, the > > > blanket comment "M68k/ColdFire is not a primary platform - CLOSED". > > > > That should not happen, they should only get their target milestone > > bump

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-12 Thread Mike Stump
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Joe Buck wrote: The description of WORKSFORME sounds closest: we don't know how to reproduce the bug. Should that be used? No, not generally. This should only be used if someone says, I compile foo on platform bar and it didn't build and then someone tries bu

Re: bug management: WAITING bugs that have timed out

2007-01-23 Thread Mark Mitchell
Mike Stump wrote: > On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Joe Buck wrote: >> The description of WORKSFORME sounds closest: we don't know how to >> reproduce the bug. Should that be used? > > No, not generally. Of the states we have, WORKSFORME seems best to me, and I agree with Joe that there's benefit