RPM submission procedure

[Ronny Buchmann]

On Friday 09 January 2004 10:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le ven 09/01/2004 à 00:50, Ronny Buchmann a écrit :
> > On Thursday 08 January 2004 20:56, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > > steve at silug.org (Steven Pritchard) writes:
> > > > Personally, I think style issues should be reserved for *after* any
> > > > package has made it into testing, at least.
> > >
> > > No, when a package is in a public repository it is too late. People
> > > will begin to use this repository as default one since it has lots of
> > > cool packages. Since packages are already published, bugreports will
> > > have a low priority for the packagers and bugs stay forever (rawhide is
> > > a good example).
> >
> > I don't think this is a problem. When rawhide bugs are not maintained
> > this mostly means they are gone or they didn't really exist or the
> > reporter has no real interest in it.
>
> Or the reporter has no wish to make a pest of himself.
> I've personally open enough bugzilla entries in different systems over
> the years to be confident my reports can be exploited. When I open a bug
> I follow it and answer whatever questions the developer has. Now more
> than once I had questions asked after I opened a bug, and nothing
> happened after I answered them (sometimes just a few hours after they
> were submitted).
>
> At this point I won't waste my time prodding the developer anymore.
> Hell, by the time I've written up a report I usually have one or two
> ugly workarounds I'm making use of. I'm usually not opening bugs because
> I'm stuck. I'm opening them to improve the overall Fedora/Red Hat
> quality because I'm grateful for the service they provide, and I don't
> pay for the systems I install on my personal computers. It's up to the
> distribution QA to follow up on my reports. If they choose not to do it,
> I certainly won't try to force them.
>
> (and when I can't follow on a bug I write it but this only happened to
> me once or twice so far)
Yes, current RH bugzilla can be really annoying. But we are discussing about 
fedora.us / the future.

ronny