Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> The problem is - we can't act as man in middle - it's better when original 
> reporter is also upstream reporter = direct communication.

Wait -- *any* Fedora developer could say this about any bug.  I just
don't think it's true, and it assumes that the person reporting the bug
knows as much about the intricacies of source code and programming as
the developers do.

If I were were to put the onus of finding the right upstream project and
reporting bugs there onto people reporting printing problems, none of
those bugs would get fixed at all.

The user experiencing a bug *already* has to be pretty determined in
order to get as far as filing a bug in Bugzilla.

> If reporter 
> doesn't want to fill upstream bug - we do it (for example he doesn't want to 
> create upstream bz account).

Seems to me this ought to be opt-in not opt-out -- we should be
reporting the bugs upstream, and then the original reporter gets to add
themselves to the upstream bug's CC field if they like.

Tim.
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