reporting bugs upstream : nothing on the wiki?

[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 19:21 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> It's packager/maintainer duty to be the bridge between upstream 
> bugzilla and ours.
> 
> It cant be expected nor required of either triagers and or reporters to 
> create account and familiar themselves with upstream bugzilla and 
> procedures and to even suggest that is simply ludicrous.
> 

Why is it "simply ludicrous"? It only needs following simple
instructions. You don't really need to learn anything for this. I'm not
asking $grandma to do it, but there are quite a few computer savy folks
who wouldn't have much of a problem doing this. I'm suggesting
encouraging these folks to be mini contributors in this way. I see no
downside here.

> Those packagers that are simply to lazy to obey this should move to 
> another distro or their component be removed from bugzilla to avoid 
> unnecessary confusion, burden and what not on the whole QA community.

That's no where to a solution. Please, constructive ideas would help.
You'll have to explain "unnecessary confusion, burden and what not on
the whole QA community". I got no clue what that refers to.

> FESCO needs to make it mandatory requirements of packagers to be that 
> bridge for the components they maintain.
> JBG

It isn't always possible to do. I've seen the amount of bugs that
packages receive, bridging all of them to upstream isn't really possible
at times. Sometimes the maintainer/up stream cannot reproduce the bug.
How is he supposed to work in this case? "Oh! I'll fix it when it
happens to me"?

regards,
Ankur