Questions about Fusion Linux

[Jon Ciesla]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:29 -0400, TK009 wrote:
>>     
>>> I got an email this morning from the Fusion Linux group. In it, the
>>> group lead suggested this to one of his users -
>>>
>>> "Fusion 14 betais based on Fedora 14 which isn't released yet so there
>>> could be number of bugs that haven't been fixed yet. I suggest you
>>> report the bug via fedora bugtracker and just say that you are using
>>> Fedora 14."
>>>
>>> Do we now support Fusion Linux as well? Is it correct for them to use bugzilla?
>>>       
>> Fusion is mostly a remix with some non-approved packages added, so if
>> the bug is a straightforward bug in a package which is taken directly
>> from Fedora, it would seem to make most sense to log a report in Fedora
>> bugzilla, yeah. Same way we often direct people upstream to freedesktop,
>> GNOME or KDE bug trackers.
>>     
>
> I'm the maintained of Fusion Linux and my common sense is that we will
> try to help with any bugs that users ask us about and try our best to
> fix them. If we think it is issue that we also share with Fedora we
> will encourage Fusion Linux users to report bug to Fedora bugzilla.
>
> If the issue is with some package from RPMFusion we will direct them
> to RPMFusion bugzilla and if the issue is with anything specific that
> we did in Fusion Linux then we will try to fix the issue ourselves.
>
> Does this sounds reasonable to all of you?
>
>   
How does the end user make this determination, or are you going to have 
them go to you first so you can triage appropriately?
> Fedora Fusion is 98% fedora just with added extra packages, some
> removed, added multimedia packages from RPMFusion, different GNOME
> theme and different GNOME menu, but we don't do any weird things or
> apply out patches to any other components. Most difference is in look
> and feel, and different default options out-of-the-box for those who
> like to have some things setup in a different way.
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>   


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