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

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Juha Tuomala <Juha.Tuomala at iki.fi> wrote:
> Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list?

Bugzilla has multiple uses. The upstream project goes to some length
describing it as a flexible tool.  We in fact use it for multiple
purposes. We use it for package review tickets...which are stictly
speaking not "bugs" in a release.  We most definitely use it primarily
as a to-do list manager for package maintainers..from package birth to
package death. The established workflow that we are using now is not
and has never pretended to be an accurate audit trail of active
defects in a given release.

> I always thought that the bugzilla is for whole community, including
> the users. Not just for pkg maintainers.

No one has so far defined a workflow that requires an accurate audit
of active deficiencies in any release.  Closing bugs fixed rawhide
certainly cause some annoyances because closed bugs are marginally
harder to search for (because you have to request closed bugs to
search through) when encountering the problem again and subsequently
cause bugs to be refiled unnecessarily.  The same goes for any closure
condition that bodhi doesn't automatically perform when an update gets
pushed to stable.

-jef