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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Curtis Hovey
<curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Timeouts are hard to close, even for people like me. I can close an oops
> in less than a day, but I think I can fix only 2 timeouts per week. The
> oopses the Registry team have worked on last year were not invalid, I do
> not expect to close invalid oopses. We were able to fix a few timeouts
> by finding a common root cause. I think 2 our of 7 timeouts have common
> roots.

Lets spend some time on how-to-do timeouts next week; I find them
usually pretty direct to fix - and some are very simple (like the bug
search for tag:-* timeout that is landing now - bug 501945).

-Rob