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

Thomas Spura spurath at students.uni-mainz.de
Mon Mar 29 19:05:12 UTC 2010


Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 19:47 +0200 schrieb Oliver Falk:
> Yeah. Kick out KDE! Use XFCE! Flamewar! *g*

+1 :D

> 
> Just jokin'...
> 
> I also agree with "Fine". Pkg maintainers are responsible for their pkgs. And of course not everybody is able to fix any kind of bug...

I also agree with Christoph. Pkg maintainers should file bugs upstream,
when getting a bug report and not just closing anyhow and let the
reporter do their job (and saying 'I watch them upstream').

> 
> Josephine Tannhäuser	 <josephine.tannhauser at googlemail.com> schrieb:
> 
> >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, a good communication with upstream will help to fix bugs asap.
> >
> >> Regards,
> >> Michal
> >Please don't post crap like this any more. This is a seriously list
> >and not a troll paradise.
> >Here's your red herring <°)))o><
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