From: Michael P. <mp...@at...> - 2006-06-09 20:37:31
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I took a look at the BUGS file today. Was a bit shocking to see it had over 2000 lines. So I started looking through the entries and tried two that were hard to believe (67 & 108). Both cases worked for me. So how many of the entries in the BUGS file are actually still bugs and does any person or any process check these on a regular basis? Michael |
From: Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...> - 2006-06-10 01:23:34
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Michael Price <mp...@at...> writes: > I took a look at the BUGS file today. Was a bit shocking to see it had > over 2000 lines. So I started looking through the entries and tried two > that were hard to believe (67 & 108). Both cases worked for me. 67 is there for a reason, at least: it is still quite possibly to shoot yourself in the foot by tracing the wrong thing. > So how many of the entries in the BUGS file are actually still bugs and > does any person or any process check these on a regular basis? Regularly irregularly. Developers tend to comb through the file "every once in a while", and when something is discovered to be stale it gets deleted. In an ideal world the file would contain machine-readable test-cases, and would get automatically checked, yes. ...but my gut feeling is that at least 90% of them are there for a reason -- if not for the bug itself, then for as placeholders for problem areas (when bugs get fixed, but the root-cause may still remain.) Cheers, -- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs." |
From: Juho S. <js...@ik...> - 2006-06-10 01:44:05
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Michael Price <mp...@at...> writes: > I took a look at the BUGS file today. Was a bit shocking to see it had > over 2000 lines. So I started looking through the entries and tried two > that were hard to believe (67 & 108). Both cases worked for me. #108 is probably still valid, even if you didn't manage to trigger it. That goes for the other ROOM T entries too, since somebody got fed up with the bug and commented out the extra-verbose output which was needed to trigger the bug (see SB!KERNEL:ROOM-MAXIMAL-INFO). > So how many of the entries in the BUGS file are actually still bugs Unknown, but very likely not all of them. > and does any person or any process check these on a regular basis? No, but tested patches for BUGS would be welcome. -- Juho Snellman |