updates

[Michael Young]

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 10:36, Jef Spaleta wrote:

> >Having to add myself to the CC list on every bug report in Bugzilla just
> >so I can stay informed of the status of a bug is time consuming, and a
> >poor method of passing information in my opinion.
> 
> Holy crap no!!!!!!!!!!!
> there is so much movement in rawhide from day to day....rhn's bandwidth
> would get munched..not to mention the fact that is not necessarily in
> every beta testers best interest to eat every rawhide package that comes
> down the pike. Rawhide packages can break as much as they fix...putting
> all the rawhide additions into rhn is not a good idea.  Not all beta
> testers are equal...its one thing to encourage ALL beta testers to use
> the prepackaged isos and file bugs against them. Its a far different
> thing to say that every beta tester should be completely rawhide
> up2date. The isos are the packages sets that need to be consumed by the
> general beta tester populace...not the day to day rawhide packages.
> 
> And i personally think forcing people to track bugreports is a very good
> idea. Developers need to use bugzilla to keep up with feedback. I don't
> think its necessarily a good idea to encourage everyone to use the
> rawhide packages...if they aren't going to give feedback back to the
> bugreport that helped generate the rawhide package.  Maybe what bugzilla
> needs is a digest mode..so it can hand you a compiled daily list of CC'd
> messages for all the bugs you are tracking. That way you can get one
> message or so a day for all the bugs you are interested in.  if you are
> going to file a bugreport...then you should be prepared to communciate
> via bugzilla with the developer about the issue, including feedback on
> the potential fix that appears in rawhide....well unless all your
> bugreports are the 'this font look skinny' variety...then you can
> probably safely assuming the developer isn't going to need feedback on
> the issue.

I'm sorry, did you say something? My font is to skinny, and I can't find
RHN...