On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Well, bugs are usually fixed within days after they have been >> reported. Otherwise they are usually documented in the code or in the >> documentation or in the test suite (with test_expect_failure). >> >> For the rest we rely on people remembering what happened and on >> people's mailing list searching skills ;-) > > Not really. > > What we do is to take advantage of the fact that issues people do care > about are important ones, and others that nobody cares about are not worth > pursuing. > > In a sense, "people forgetting" is a lot more important than "people > remembering" to filter unimportant issues (issues that are so unimportant > that even the original complainer does not bother to come back and > re-raise it). Thanks for the clarification, now I feel much better about how well I am doing regarding the mailing list :-) Christian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html