Reporting bugs. (Re: FC6 through the rear view mirror)

[Robin Laing]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 08:28 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> I enjoy the myth of calling Fedora a community driven project. It is a
>> project driven by the people who run Fedora. I have yet to see any
>> suggestion made by the Fedora list community accepted by Fedora
>> developers, but I am not on the fedora-developers list so I may have
>> missed it. It was Fedora that has failed me by giving me the FC6
>> distribution that exhibits problems not found on any other previous
>> Fedora or Red Hat distribution. It is annoying to take 5 months to
>> figure out how to deal with the problems of a distribution that is
>> created anew every 6 or 7 months. But I admit it is educational.
> ----
> this is absolute hogwash
> 
> If you don't monitor bugzilla and you don't monitor the developers list,
> where do you expect to see the impact of user contributions?
> 
> The user contributions on this list is users helping users.
> 
> The user contributions to the software developers is accomplished via
> bugzilla. The developers have mostly left the user lists so as not to
> get discouraged by ranting, ungrateful, whining posters.
> 
> Craig
> 

I have to agree with you Craig.  I have seen some of my suggestions on 
Bugzilla implemented, maybe not as I exactly recommended but close to 
what I envisioned.  Maybe not in the version of Fedora I was/am using 
but in future versions.

Of all the suggestions that are put in to bugzilla, how many are 
supported by members of this list?  In fact, how many users on this list 
has even looked at bugzilla?

I admit that I only look when I have an issue but I have also reported 
those issues.  In some cases, I have seen issues similar to what I was 
going to post and added my suggestion to their report.

This list isn't for suggestions but user support.  At least in my thoughts.

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Robin Laing