Maintainer Responsibilities

[Ralf Corsepius]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Signing up for an upstream Bugzilla account takes at most 5 minutes,
... when being interested in an upstream ... wasting much more time on 
investigating issues ...


>> There are other packages and packagers (noteworthy many of the @RH) who
>> exhibit the same "push reporters around" behavior.
> 
> That's because that's our policy, and rightfully so.
I disagree. It's a serious management error.

>> Now combine this with the "report bugs" phrases certain people tend to
>> reiterate? ... Experiences, such as the one I encountered with the
>> evolution maintainer, are the cause why at least some people sense a
>> foul taste when listening to them.
> 
> Then let's say: Report bugs, to the right place of course (usually
> upstream)!
Then better be consequent: Shut down Fedora's bugzilla.