Migrating to our own bugzilla instance.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 09/23/2013 11:12 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Considering I've been involved with infrastructure since at least 
> 2004. I think I classify as one of the long term infrastructure guys 
> and I do not agree with you. There is possibly some cases where it's 
> better to just report upstream. 

If we want the bugs to be fixed it's best to directly file them upstream 
ourselves.

> How would we document and make sure that the message got out.

The how to debug and how to test process I started many years ago in QA.

> There are many more times that the bug only belongs in fedora. I 
> strongly believe fedora developers should be the gateway and the 
> people with the relationship to upstream.

Well I thought our goal was to have as many upstreams contributing to 
Fedora not as many people acting as liasons between upstream and Fedora?

> It is right to require our users to possible have to create multiple 
> bug reporting accounts in multiple upstreams? I personally do not 
> think so.

That argument goes both ways you can just as well say should upstream 
have gazillion downstream distribution bugzilla accounts?

There are two ways this can be solved which works both in favour of 
upstream and reporters one is to have bugzilla instance communicate 
between themselves and that concept that breaks immediately since there 
are various different bugzilla instance in usage as there are upstreams 
and the other approach to have single large bugzilla instance that all 
major distribution maintain and use together with specific distribution 
component ( which infra claims not having resources to do anyway ).

JBG