Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Jul 11 04:14:30 UTC 2010


Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 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.

Upstream wants to talk to somebody who's actually experiencing the problem, 
not to a forwarding monkey.

        Kevin Kofler



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