bugzilla.redhat.com vs upstream bug trackers

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:02:04 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:

> On 06/17/2013 01:00 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> >I would like to avoid creating accounts in gazillion upstream bug trackers,
> > Aha! Should the package maintainers play the middle man in the
> > gazillion upstream bug tracker accounts? This sounds neither very
> > thoughtful nor quite efficient.
> >
> 
> It's your responsibility as an maintainer in the distribution to be in 
> contact with upstream, subscribed to their mailing lists, have an 
> account in their upstream tracker and participate in their upstream 
> community so yes that comes with the territory of being a responsible 
> maintainer in the distribution...

Let's not argue about it again and again, please. What works well for some
packages and some software projects, isn't always feasible.

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities#Work_with_upstream

Oh, and btw, we need more (co-)maintainers for packages.

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Michael Schwendt
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