bugzilla life cycle

[Rahul]

Don Russell wrote:
> Just curious... not meant as any sort of criticism.... :-)
> 
> Is there a typical time frame from when a bug is closed/fixed in 
> bugzilla, and the correction distributed via yum update?

It varies widely. Severity is one of the factors. Critical security 
updates and crashers for example are usually fixed much faster compared 
to other issues.

> 
> In particular, I'm curious about a bug I opened against ftp, and 
> provided a fix for...
> 
> If interested, see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103
> 

The bug is marked as closed in the current release. So a update should 
have been provided by now. If not reopen and claim. If a several bug is 
not being responded to, fedora-devel list would be a good place to ask.

Rahul