What do we need from Bugzilla? (was: My roadmap for a better Fedora)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 21 November 2008 at 10:50, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Andrew Cagney [21/11/2008 09:56] :
> >
> > I'd like a "push upstream" button, as in create a corresponding bug in
> > the master upstream bug database.  Bonus points if it then keeps them
> > somewhat in sync :-)
> 
> Things to keep in mind :
> 
> - Users have to be pushed upstream as well. The reporter of the bug in
>   bugzilla.redhat.com must stay the reporter in the upstreamed bug
>   report.
> 
> - You need to check for dupes and not blindly open a bug in the upstream
>   bug tracker.
> 
> - Even if most upstreams use bugzilla, their notions of products and
>   components is different from Red Hat/Fedora's. You'll need to work out
>   a mapping from one to the other.

I'm beginning to see why Canonical thinks their Launchpad has to have only
one global instance.

Regards,
R.

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