F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:23:02PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
> > If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen
> > different bugzilla accounts by now.
> 
> So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than 
> forwarding the bugs you're too lazy to file directly at the right place.

Shipping bug-free software is the job of maintainers. It's reasonable to 
ask a reporter to take an issue upstream if you feel that that'll result 
in the bug being fixed faster, but there's no reason to mandate that and 
it certainly doesn't match the common use of bugzilla.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org