Maintainer Responsibilities
Matej Cepl
mcepl at redhat.com
Fri Jun 5 08:38:04 UTC 2009
Reindl Harald, Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:45:21 +0200:
> I think it is simple BAD to close bugreports with "upstream"! For me as
> "enduser" of fedora i have one bugzilla and i really like to help with
> bugreports, try things if maintainer needs better explains what happens.
As you can see from this thread, there are as many opinions on this issue
as there are packages in Fedora ;-). It all depends from the style of
packager's work. E.g., openoffice.org maintainer prefers to move all non-
packaging bugs upstream ASAP (he does the moving) and then he works on
them upstream (firefox maintainers have similar attitude). Advantage (and
one of the foundational pieces of Red Hat philosophy) is that a) our work
can be shared with others, b) we can use results of others work.
And yes, whole process of upstreaming should be invisible and painless to
reporter of RH bug, but our tooling in this area is non-existent. Join
the party at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452962 :)
Matej
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