[Rd] The recent bug blitz

[Mikael Jagan]

Maybe others will share in my astonishment seeing that Tomas Kalibera has
since Aug 1 closed ~80 bugs on R's Bugzilla, in all cases providing quite
thoughtful and instructive explanation.  I've learned quite a bit keeping
up with his comments this month, notably from closures whose resolution
was *not* FIXED, as those provided guidance about what issues, while valid,
may not be a good use of developer time or worth additional complexity,
maintenance, etc.

  
https://bugs.r-project.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2025-08-01&chfieldto=2025-08-31&chfieldvalue=CLOSED&email3=tomas.kalibera%40gmail.com&emaillongdesc3=1&emailtype3=substring&list_id=44555

A huge effort, clearly, so thanks very much, Tomas - and apologies if you
would have preferred to continue your work in obscurity ...

For anyone feeling inspired, there is a nice blog post about how users can
help to review open bug reports

  
https://blog.r-project.org/2019/10/09/r-can-use-your-help-reviewing-bug-reports/index.html

which links to this helpful article about writing good bug reports

     https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html


Mikael