Bugs and RFE's for Fedora Workstation

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
> With the creation of the 3 Fedora flavours, the process of tracking bugs and
> RFE's for Fedora workstation is a lot more muddled than it already is.
> Should this be something that we should focus on as a meta-task for the F22
> release?
>
> Bugzilla currently tracks issues on a per-package (component in the Bugzilla
> terminology ) basis, so some packages are used in all 3 flavours, but others
> are more specific to Workstation (e.g. gnome-shell). And some of these have
> a lot of bugs in the NEW status (gnome-shell has over 830).
>
> I'm not sure what the solution is here, but from a user point of view, the
> experience for filing a bug, RFE or providing feedback for the workstation
> is very confusing. IMHO, we shouldn't expect users to know what component
> their bug is against, or if they should file a bug upstream or not.
>
> So i'm reaching out for thoughts / ideas on how to make this better.

We have the Workstation trac instance.  For RFE's specific to
workstation, people could file those there.  I know trac is horrible,
but we have nothing better at the moment.  Package specific problems
still likely belong in the per-package component in bugzilla though.

josh