separate emails to fedora-legacy-announce for each OS

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:49:56AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Multiple bugzilla entries will be a bit more work, but because of the
> clone bug feature, I don't think it's a lot more.

Multiple bugzilla entries will be actually tons of more work.  My
guess would be a bigger factor than just simple multiply by a number
of entries.  Majority of bugs  actually closely related across
distributions and an information if and how something was fixed for
another package version helps a lot.  Even if a fix does not apply
directly, and often does or something pretty close can be made,
an information how this was done elsewhere is valuable; both in
an assesment of an impact and in making a patch.

I already have substantial troubles in finding Legacy bugs.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora+Legacy
does produce some listing but this does not seem to be in any
discernible order and searching through that, even if you have some
idea what you are searching for, is difficult and takes time.  Maybe
I am not sufficiently conversant with bugzilla searches but I do not
see how easily to filter out, for example, all CLOSED bugs from that
pile.  Make that haystack even bigger and force me to do repeated
searches so I can be reasonably sure that I found all releated
information I may need and I think that I will simply give up.

> And there's a little more
> work on the mail announcement front, but that's mostly templates and cutting
> and pasting anyway. 

OTOH without a very careful tracking of everything you are now
loosing an information was this problem a distro specific, was it
already fixed somewhere else, will be ever fixed, and so on ...

It seems that this split is proposed as a remedy for a situation
when updates are waiting very long for releases.  Somehow I doubt
if this will help very much here.  IMO "release early, release
often" policy from the very beginning would have much bigger gains
than losses in an overall picture, and it would help with that
problem too, but it appears that I am in a minority position here.

   Michal