On 05.01.2008 13:04, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:45 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: >> I can put some time this weekend into closing out old bugs, however, >> before doing so, I wanted to make sure that our messaging is crystal >> clear. > > I've got a better idea. Let's just close _all_ the non-packaging bugs, > even current ones, with a message such as the following: > This is a bug in the software, not the packaging. This needs to > be reported to the $PACKAGE author, not to me, the Fedora > packager. > Wouldn't that be a great thing for Fedora? We could reduce the bug count > to almost zero overnight! A +0.66 from me In fact, something like the above is what I always do and did for my packages (and had to do, as I'm a package-monkey and no developer). IOW: if it's not a packaging bug or otherwise specific to Fedora I asked the reported to report the bug upstream, as the bug gets fixed for everyone then -- that includes other distributions and thus is the best for everyone and avoid double work in our current world with fivehundred-and-more distributions. If the reported didn't forward the bug upstream I did it if the bug looked worth forwarding. But only +0,66 and not +1 here, because we ship some packages with quite a lot of patches -- kernel and part from the Xorg-stack for example afaics. For those packages Fedora's bugzilla likely needs to remain the first point for a report as long as we ship intrusive patches. Just my 2 cent. Cu knurd _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
