On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:49:56AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Multiple bugzilla entries will be a bit more work, but because of the > clone bug feature, I don't think it's a lot more. Multiple bugzilla entries will be actually tons of more work. My guess would be a bigger factor than just simple multiply by a number of entries. Majority of bugs actually closely related across distributions and an information if and how something was fixed for another package version helps a lot. Even if a fix does not apply directly, and often does or something pretty close can be made, an information how this was done elsewhere is valuable; both in an assesment of an impact and in making a patch. I already have substantial troubles in finding Legacy bugs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora+Legacy does produce some listing but this does not seem to be in any discernible order and searching through that, even if you have some idea what you are searching for, is difficult and takes time. Maybe I am not sufficiently conversant with bugzilla searches but I do not see how easily to filter out, for example, all CLOSED bugs from that pile. Make that haystack even bigger and force me to do repeated searches so I can be reasonably sure that I found all releated information I may need and I think that I will simply give up. > And there's a little more > work on the mail announcement front, but that's mostly templates and cutting > and pasting anyway. OTOH without a very careful tracking of everything you are now loosing an information was this problem a distro specific, was it already fixed somewhere else, will be ever fixed, and so on ... It seems that this split is proposed as a remedy for a situation when updates are waiting very long for releases. Somehow I doubt if this will help very much here. IMO "release early, release often" policy from the very beginning would have much bigger gains than losses in an overall picture, and it would help with that problem too, but it appears that I am in a minority position here. Michal -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
