> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:47 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> Michael Schwendt <fedora(a)wir-sind-cool.org> wrote:
>
>> > As a user, being confronted with "just another feature-overloaded bug
>> > tracker" which contains many new and poorly named and insufficiently
>> > described "products" and "components" and hundreds of
open bug
>> reports, it
>> > is a very frustrating experience to spend time on _trying_ to help by
>> > reporting something upstream only to learn that the report is ignored
>> or
>> > closed as duplicate or closed as NOTOURBUG or not been looked at for
>> > many months.
>>
>> Why not adopt some packages, and help out by keeping an eye on bugzilla
>> for
>> them, trying to reproduce bugs, and kick them upstream as needed? That
>> way
>> you don't have to learn about many upstream bug trackers, just a few.
>> --
>
> If anyone is interested in that,
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
>
> Rahul
Isn't this a workaround for bugzilla lacking an easy way to move bugs
upstream? Wasn't the XML RPC interface meant to solve this?
Upstream projects use different versions of bugzilla and various other
bug tracking systems. There isnt a universal method of doing it
automatically. In some cases XML RPC does help.
Rahul