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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> I have a few hours to spare tonight, and I was using the
> query-pr-summary.cgi script to view the open PRs.
> 
> The query URL was (wrapped to avoid terminal silliness):
> 
>   1  http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?\
>   2  category=&severity=critical&priority=&class=\
>   3  &state=open&sort=category&text=&responsible=\
>   4  &multitext=&originator=
> 
> You can clearly see that (in line 3), I have chosen to view only PRs
> whose state is `open' AND (line 2) severity is `critical', in an
> effort to help closing first those PRs that are more important.
> 
> Well, guess what, I am getting a summary of PRs in my Netscape window,
> which includes such PRs as i386/28002.  The summary line for this PR
> looks like:
> 
> o [2001/06/09] i386/28002            make world fails (ref. to ipf)
> 
> Knowing that this issue has been hashed in the mailing lists, I opened
> the PR to see what state it is in, and what its trail is so far.
> 
> When I open the PR in a new window, only then I see that it's state is
> not `open', but `closed'.  Yet, somehow, it has managed to sneak
> through my query-pr filter, despite the `state=open' rule I use.
> 
> Does this strike anyone else as a problem of the problem reporting
> tool? (Nice recursion i got myself in.)

Is it possible that the PR was closed between the time when you
requested the summary and the time when you requested full information
on the PR?

> 
> -giorgos
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