F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> If I filed every bug in the distro in upstream I'd have a dozen
>> different bugzilla accounts by now.
>
> So what? Maintainers are not messengers, they have other work to do than
> forwarding the bugs you're too lazy to file directly at the right place.

While I agree it can be a pain, don't you want to know if a user is
having problems with a package you're responsible for? If they file it
upstream there's a chance you will not find out about it, nor would
you know when it's fixed and a new package should be built.

Richard