F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 17:46:18 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 06:23:02PM +0100, Kevin Kofler 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.
>
> Shipping bug-free software is the job of maintainers. It's reasonable to
> ask a reporter to take an issue upstream if you feel that that'll result
> in the bug being fixed faster, but there's no reason to mandate that and
> it certainly doesn't match the common use of bugzilla.

Argh I didn't intend to start this kind of discussion by "(upstream)"
I just meant "I prefer upstream" ... I didn't mandate anything.


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