On Tuesday 02 June 2009 06:17:02 pm Steven M. Parrish wrote:
So, this raises the question about bugzappers. Should they be making the
determination for maintainers that the reporter should have taken the issue
upstream? Do bug zappers take into consideration the severity of the bug
before pushing someone upstream?
The bug is not a packaging bug, the package maintainer has no plans
to work
on this in the near future, and there is an upstream bug tracking system
other than the Red Hat Bugzilla.
Is there communication between maintainer and bugzapper before doing this?
Maintainers should be free to either fix it locally (time permitting)
and
upstream the patch or request that the bug be filed at the upstream
projects tracker for the upstream developers to resolve it.
If it is sent upstream the bug is closed as UPSTREAM and our local report
is cross-referenced to the upstream one. That way the maintainer and all
interested parties can follow its progress.
Not if its closed. How would I be notified that the fix is in Fedora? If the bug
is severe enough, shouldn't the upstream commit be applied to Fedora's package
and the package pushed out for testing? Is all this going to happen if the bug
is closed?
-Steve