Maintainer Responsibilities
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jun 2 22:02:39 UTC 2009
Steve Grubb wrote:
> I don't want to start a long thread, but just to ask a couple questions for my
> own clarification. Does a maintainer's responsibilities end with packaging
> bugs? IOW, if there is a problem in the package that is _broken code_ do they
> need to do something about it or is it acceptable for them to close the bug
> and say talk to upstream? Do we want those bugs open to track when the bug is
> fixed in the distro? I'll accept whatever the answer is, I'm just curious.
As far as:
"Do we want those bugs open to track when the bug is fixed in the distro?"
I would think the answer is "yes". Also tie the bug to the upstream bug
if possible; if not, record in Fedora BZ a link to where the bug was
reported (e.g. if upstream has only a mailing list).
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Matthew
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