Hi,
I just reported a problem with the stock ticker applet. Basically, it looks like yahoo may have changed their format. I reported it for RH9, but it affects rawhide and probably all other versions with stock ticker as well.
What is the preferred way to report a bug like this. Bugzilla does not allow selection of both RawHide and RedHat Linux, but duplicate bug reports don't really make sense in this case.
Thanks, Steve Bergman
HoytDuff wrote:
On Friday 05 September 2003 03:41 pm, Steve Bergman wrote:
I just reported a problem with the stock ticker applet. Basically, it looks like yahoo may have changed their format.
I would file it upstream as it's not an really app maintained by Red Hat, is it?
Yahoo did change its format today. I noticed it when I looked up my stocks.
You are somewhat right about flaging the problem upstream, but Red Hat should be made aware of the problem. If the applet is broken, should it still be part of the next release? Should it be removed? RHL release should not be blocked by a faulty applet, but it tarnishes the image of RHL when installed applets installed. Then again, the author might fix the applet 2 weeks after the new RHL was released. The fixed rpm could then be made available. It would be sad if an applet which might be usefull for many would be missing in a version only because of it was broked for a couple of weeks, because of bad timing.
What is the policy of Red Hat regarding this issue?
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You are somewhat right about flaging the problem upstream, but Red Hat should be made aware of the problem. If the applet is broken, should it still be part of the next release? Should it be removed? RHL release should not be blocked by a faulty applet, but it tarnishes the image of RHL when installed applets installed. Then again, the author might fix the applet 2 weeks after the new RHL was released. The fixed rpm could then be made available. It would be sad if an applet which might be usefull for many would be missing in a version only because of it was broked for a couple of weeks, because of bad timing.
What is the policy of Red Hat regarding this issue?
File the bug against the most recent affected Red Hat is my suggestion and do mention its in older ones. Also if its a gnome applet gnome-bugzilla would be good because 2.4 is about to freeze..
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:41, Steve Bergman wrote:
Hi,
I just reported a problem with the stock ticker applet. Basically, it looks like yahoo may have changed their format. I reported it for RH9, but it affects rawhide and probably all other versions with stock ticker as well.
What is the preferred way to report a bug like this. Bugzilla does not allow selection of both RawHide and RedHat Linux, but duplicate bug reports don't really make sense in this case.
I'd just pick a version at random and mention in the body of the bug report that it affects other versions.
I don't think most developers here pay that much attention to the version for bug reports ... I certainly don't, anyways.
The important factors are:
A) Does it still affect the development version? B) Is it important enough to consider doing an errata for? B') If so, does it affect old released versions?
Since the answer to B) is almost always "no", the B') seldom matters.
Regards, Owen
[ I'm afraid our response to this bug is probably, at best, going to be to remove gtik from our packaging. ]
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