Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong
Jaroslav Reznik
jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Mar 29 13:25:00 UTC 2010
On Monday 29 March 2010 15:13:56 Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:10 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> > But still bugs are fixed by program developers not Fedora developers.
>
> IMO 'Fedora developers' (really, what you mean here are packagers, I
> guess) should strive to become 'program developers' for the packages
> they maintain.
>
> Getting stuck in package maintenance should not be the end-goal of
> Fedora contributors...
It isn't - we try to contribute upstream as much as possible - our goal - but
you never can understand everything in a such a big project(s). Even core
developers sometimes are not sure about consequences of the bug fix. But that's
the nice thing on open source - collaboration! You are never alone ;-)
Jaroslav
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