what's the point of filing bugs against Fedora?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Ian Malone  wrote:

> On the other hand the casual bug reporter can't be expected to be able to
> determine that their bug is an upstream one, so if the package maintainer
> or triager is able to look at a bug and say, "this is an upstream issue",
> then click a button to connect it upwards that would stop this being a
> problem.
>


Sure, that has been suggested many times before but it isn't easy to
achieve that.  For one, we don't really have any active triaging team and
package maintainers have to do that triaging as well typically but the more
important problem is that, bugzilla is not a universal tracking system
(think launchpad, sf.net, google code tracker, github, projects using trac,
redmine  etc etc) and even within bugzilla many instances are very heavily
customized to suit project specific workflows so trying to establish a
connection to an upstream project (authentication and authorization) and
finding a good way to map the information from distro speciifc bug tracker
to the upstream project bug tracker and keeping track of the status etc
automatically isn't an easy problem at all.

Launchpad tried to do some of this but it has failed to achieve that vision
partly because it was proprietary for a long time and even now doesn't work
like a regular open source project (no releases etc) and is tied to bzr
version control which not many want to use.

Rahul
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