F17 heads up: gnome-shell for everyone!

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:23:02 +0100
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> 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.

IMHO you are very, very wrong about this. A maintainer is fully
responsible for the product he is delivering into the hands of users.
Sending them to file bugs upstream means not doing maintainer's job.

Aside from the abdication of responsibility, there are a few technical
problems with the idea as well. The need for a given user to allocate
accounts and the resulting chilling effect is one downside, as already
mentioned. The bug is not going anywhere if you make it harder for
the user to file! Also, upstream often refuses to deal with distro
bugs, and may ask to rebuild from the source or to use upstream-built
releases.

-- Pete