Rawhide development

[Michael Wiktowy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
> Reading through the desktop-devel-list in GNOME brings 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-July/msg00357.html. 
> So whats the plan of action here?. Making it easier for end users to 
> test rawhide?. Making it more dogfoodable?  Encourage them to file 
> upstream bug reports more?.
>
> Questions..... questions....
>
> regards
> Rahul
>
If the Gnome bug-buddy tool wasn't broken every time that I have ran 
into a problem that spawned it, there would likely be more feedback.
Having a bug that prevents the bug reporting tool from reporting a bug 
is kind of a catch-22 situation and many are likely to just give up at 
that point and not bother finding out where or how to submit the bug 
instead of using the automatic tool.

In wokring around broken reporting tools, having to register a bugzilla 
account with every single upstream project in order for them to get the 
feedback directly is a bit awkward. Maybe upstream bugzillas could just 
be CC:ed on downstream reported bugs automatically based on component 
reported on and that upstream can CC: the downstream to give reporters 
feedback. But that would require some sort of per-bug mailing list 
feature in bugzilla and I have no idea if that is available or feasible.

/Mike