Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

[Matt McCutchen]

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 14:35 -0400, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> On 07/10/2010 01:37 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Those bugs should be reported upstream, and such was requested in the bug 
> > report. The reporters outright refused to report the bugs upstream, thus 
> > it's normal to close them.

> I'm pretty sure I signed on to provide the link between upstream and
> users when I submitted a package to Fedora.  It is one of the
> responsibilities of maintaining a package.

I don't know if Fedora has an official stance documented somewhere, but
I personally would support Eric's viewpoint.  A Fedora maintainer should
be responsible for all the bugs in the package, even if that just means
forwarding them upstream.  Reporters are encouraged to help out by
forwarding bugs themselves, just as contributions to Fedora are
encouraged in general, but to close the bug because they decline to do
so is bogus.

-- 
Matt