The vision for the Fedora Workstation

[Christian Schaller]

To be clear no bugs will be rejected, but the reality is that
at least as far as Red Hat engineers are concerned most 
of their time is spent on RHEL bugs. The remaining time is then
split between upstream feature development, upstream bug reports,
fedora maintenance work and fedora bug reports. Not surprisingly 
the amount of time available for each task tend to be very limited.
Which means developers tend to go into a mode of hard prioritization, 
using tools like retrace to pick important crashers affecting a lot of 
people and also skip over bugs on 'weird' systems if it is not obvious 
on first glance what the issue is, simply because they don't want to 
risk spending the limited time they have available on those Fedora bugs 
that have a higher likelihood to be an user error.

Ideally of course all bugs should be looked at and investigated,
but in terms of time available that is simply not realistic.

Of course the Fedora community can and are helping here, both in terms 
of helping with triaging, but of course also in terms of actually 
fixing bugs. Individual contributors will of course have their
own motivations for what issues they get involved with or not.

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Murphy" <frankly3d at gmail.com>
> To: desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:51:02 AM
> Subject: Re: The vision for the Fedora Workstation
> 
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:37:14 -0500 (EST)
> Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > I know that for a lot of the teams
> > retrace.fedoraproject.org is one of the primary bug prioritization
> > tools atm., and the goal would be to have more granularity on that
> > site to for instance have the 3 products be something you can filter
> > on.
> 
> I've run a "FrankenFedora" since about F3.
> (it's not a Gnome 3 thing with me, dialup was expensive)
> Will non DE component Bugz still be accepted or ignored.
> from those on the tent porch.
> Eg. kernel, sytemd, Java, crypt.
> 
> ___
> Regards
> Frank
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