Bug 531464 - why the WONTFIX?

[Rudolf Kastl]

2010/7/11 Rudolf Kastl <che666 at gmail.com>:
> 2010/7/11 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
>> Matt McCutchen wrote:
>>> If you're suggesting that an upstream bug report is information needed
>>> to understand a Fedora bug, that's absurd.  It's a step taken to resolve
>>> the bug.  Would you mark a bug INSUFFICIENT_DATA because the reporter
>>> didn't provide a patch?
>>
>> Providing a patch is actually hard. Reporting a bug in the upstream bug
>> tracker is just a matter of filling out the form, if the reporter refuses to
>> do that, it's only pure laziness.
>
> well thing is... if you are constantly reporting bugs vs stuff we have
> in it is not possible to maintain like a 1000 upstream bugzilla
> accounts. thats why there is a maintainer that in the best case works
> close with upstream anyways and has more insight on what happens with
> the project. just my personal point of view.

... and a valid fix from my pov to lower the overhead for the
maintainer would be to make it easier and less effort to get the stuff
forwarded upstream for him. a one-click forward upstream button would
be a nice thing and it is defintely technically possible.

kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl

>
> kind regards,
> rudolf kastl
>
>>
>>        Kevin Kofler
>>
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