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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bug maintenance

2016-04-28 Thread David Wohlferd
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? If so, how do I pursue this? dw