An interesting read when discussing what to do about our bugs...

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Sat Jan 19 21:17:22 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, den 19.01.2008, 20:05 +0000 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> nodata <lsof <at> nodata.co.uk> writes:
> > Fedora does a lot better, much better, but probably the most annoying
> > aspect of using Fedora's bugzilla is the attitude of some of the
> > maintainers (not all) and the "closing, report upstream" attitude.
> > 
> > Closing a bug report with "report it upstream" is a let down. It's
> > repetitive boring work that a computer should be doing.
> 
> We're 4 maintainers for all of KDE in Fedora (and that's already 4 times as 
> many as not too long ago). We get dozens of bug reports, many of which aren't 
> specific to Fedora in any way. There's no way we can fix them all by ourselves, 
> the only way to actually get things fixed is to report them to the actual 
> upstream maintainers of the concrete application you're having issues with. And 
> I don't think KDE is the only set of packages in this situation.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Then don't let people report the bugs into the Fedora bugzilla.




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