Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

[Michał Piotrowski]

2010/3/29 Josephine Tannhäuser <josephine.tannhauser at googlemail.com>:
> 2010/3/29, Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>:
>> I don't see any problem here if KDE SIG just declare "we don't fix KDE
>> bugs, we just update packages".
> wtf? You can not be serious!
> It's the duty of every maintainer to accept responsibility for his/her
> package(s).
> If there is no responsibility granted for packages in an important
> distribution like fedora, they should be kicked out (the packages and
> the maintainers)!
> I'm happy that this sentence is not an official statement...
>
> BTW: The update marathon of the KDE-SIG in stable releases is wholly
> unacceptable for me.
>
>> They are not KDE developers, so they don't know how to fix these bugs.
> This is tbs, they don't need to be a developer or a super coder to fix
> a bug

Do you remember a famous Debian OpenSSL bug fix made by qualified
Debian developer?

IMO program developer is most qualified to fix bugs.

You may not agree with this.

>, a good communication with upstream will help to fix bugs asap.

But still bugs are fixed by program developers not Fedora developers.

Regards,
Michal