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On 09/23/2013 10:03 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:5240F2EB.7080208@gmail.com" type="cite">On
09/24/2013 01:45 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">This absolutely does not scale from a POV
of a user reporting bugs.
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Well neither does it do so from developer standpoint that also has
to maintain downstream distribution bugzilla accounts.
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Basically the amount of work and the effort are on par for both
parties as in reporter has to file multiple reports against
multiple package and the developer has to deal with multiple
reports against multiple distribution in multiple downstreams etc.
so arguing one has to do more work then the other is a mute point
at least as far as I see it.
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It's really not the same at all. Not nearly.<br>
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First of all, the developers are experienced power users for whom
maintaining bugzilla accounts, if they really need to do that, is
not nearly as big a deal as it is for end users who are neither
developers nor power users.<br>
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Second, upstream developers can participate in the distribution bug
databases if they feel like it, but it's hardly required. When a
distribution package maintainer reports a bug upstream, the
developer only has to deal with the bug in his own bug database.
Whereas if Fedora bugzilla goes away, every end user <i>must</i>
deal with multiple bug databases to report package bugs to the right
place.<br>
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Third, there are, I hope, several more orders of magnitude of users
than there are upstream developers, and there are at least two
orders of magnitude more developers than their are distributions.
Therefore, in terms of the total amount of work done, all the
developers creating accounts on all the distributions' bug
databases, even if they do feel compelled to do that, is far, far
less work overall than all the users who report bugs having to
figure out how to report bugs for hundreds of different packages and
create accounts on many different bug sites.<br>
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jik<br>
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