Bug Reporting Question

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:29:35 -0500, David Cary Hart <Fedora at tqmcube.com> wrote:
> This is a source build. Might bug reporting - possibly - be useful to
> the developers in advance of the Fedora build? Might this not - possibly
> - lead to patch development? Be assured that I am not asking
> rhetorically.

I think i can pretty savely say that pre-emptive bug reports which
anticipate problems for packages that don't even exist yet are not
something fedora developers are going to want want to see.  If its a
source build... file the problem upstream.  Fedora developers 'should'
be watching upstream. Patch development should happen upstream as much
as possible and then back ported if needed at the distribution level
when it comes time to package this source code up.

There is more than enough clutter in fedora's bugzilla right now to
keep developers busy... pre-emptive bugs reports for issues that might
not even exist in the upstream code by the time the codebase is
packaged in fedora seems like a waste of everyone's time.

-jef