Introduction: new community guy, and some discussion

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 05 February 2009 21:18:22 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > There are no winners, Rahul.  Personally I've been using both Fedora and
> > Mandriva, and I can see advantages in both approaches.
> >
> > I'm not asking for anything to change, just some guidance that make sure
> > that we understand what is and what is not a Fedora issue.  At the moment
> > I tend to base my judgement on whether I can see the problem in both my
> > distros, and preferably get a *buntu user to say that they also see the
> > problem.  If I can't get some confirmation I'm inclined to think that
> > it's probably Fedora.
>
> These kind of heuristics often fail because patches are shared between
> distributions and there is no sure shot way of figuring it out other
> than checking out source code which we can't reasonably expect users to
> do. The only thing that works is for users to just file a bug report in
> the distribution bugzilla and carry it upstream if the maintainers wants
>   to or for the maintainers themselves to do it.
>
OK - so it's back to Plan A.  Fair enough - at least we know something about 
the logic of it, now.  Thanks.

Anne
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