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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> Bugzilla is OSS. Those with the talent and inclination to do so could try
> lending a hand to existing efforts to improve branch/release handling:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55970
> 
> I found that bug quickly by searching in comments for string "launchpad" in
> product "Bugzilla": http://tinyurl.com/yl5pkdz

Yeah, I'm aware of it. I check in on it regularly...once a year. It's
one of those 'long timescale' bugs =)

I unfortunately don't have the talent to help much, as I mentioned.
Mostly I bring it up in this thread to emphasize that the current Fedora
system is inherently compromised and, until the underlying tool is
improved, _always will be_: I want people to realize that, within the
current system, we cannot Solve Everything, only pick one trade-off or
another. Whichever trade-off we pick will annoy somebody, so simply
saying 'this trade-off annoys me!' is ultimately futile; I think it's
important to be aware of the big picture, which is that Bugzilla
currently simply can't cover all the things we're trying to do with it.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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