the handling of bugreports is broken

[Adam Williamson]

On 04/04/13 05:50 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> and because this happens way too often again:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906753#c6
>
> it's pretty much normal that the reporter is the first person who is willing to test and he is only willing to test
> or even only able to test for the release he has reported for, if not we would not need to select the release in
> the bugreport
>
> that is what updates-testing and scratch-builds are for
>
> notify me that a test-version exists for a distribution release which does not run on my machines and for which i
> had not reported the bug at least without having a F18 build within two days after the F19 one is a spit in the
> reporters face

It's up to maintainers to choose what bugs they mark an update as 
'fixing'. It would be very tricky to try and get prescriptive about 
that, given the huge variance in how different users report bugs, and 
how different maintainers address them, across different packages.

Personally I would not mark an update for F19 as fixing a bug reported 
against F18, but there are circumstances where it might make sense to do 
so, and I think trying to mandate that no-one ever does it would be more 
harmful than leaving things to the maintainer's discretion.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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