Upstream error reporting

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Thu Mar 20 19:08:50 UTC 2008


Am Donnerstag, den 20.03.2008, 01:53 +0000 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Philip Ashmore <contact <at> philipashmore.com> writes:
> > Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a policy in place for Fedora to 
> > be the "point of contact" for upstream bug reports so that
> > those wishing to improve the Fedora experience don't have to create 
> > multiple accounts with multiple upstream sources in order to report a bug?
> 
> We get dozens of bug reports against KDE. There's no way we can fix them all 
> ourselves. And we don't really have the time to copy&paste information to the 
> upstream bug report, then their questions to the Fedora bug report, then your 
> answer back to the upstream bug report for all those bug reports either. So 
> it's much more efficient for us if you just file bugs which aren't 
> Fedora-specific at bugs.kde.org. Once upstream has a fix (even if it isn't in a 
> release), you can then nag us to apply it.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Then we should make this clear in bugzilla for kde components.




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