Should I make a tracking bug in fedora for problem reported upstream?

[John Dulaney]

> From: bruno at wolff.to
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Should I make a tracking bug in fedora for problem reported upstream?
>
> I have reported https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41862 for an
> issue with 3.1 kernels crashing, typically on the order of hours after
> booting. Based on some names in the traceback, I suspect this is MD raid
> or luks related.
>
> I reported this upstream, since that seems to be a better place to get
> attention for development kernel bugs, than Fedora's tracker. However,
> if this should be considered a beta blocker, then I should probably also
> make a Fedora bug entry so that it can be tracked as a blocker.
>
> However it doesn't seem to meet the explicit requirements for a beta blocker.
> The only category it might fit in is a high severity bug. But if it really
> limited to systems using MD raid or luks encryption, I am not sure if
> it would meet that standard.
>
> If it isn't a blocker, I'd rather not enter a duplicate bug in Fedora since
> that would just seem to be a waste of resources. (But maybe QA would rather
> see the bug entry anyway.)


I would stick in on b.rh.com and mark it as a blocker, since it does sort of
block Beta criteria 5.

John.