Hello Eric, On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:25:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > [...] I am thinking that changing the reporting address to cygwin > first would allow myself and other cygwin developers to filter out real > upstream bugs from cygwin-specific issues, avoiding some of the confusion > apparent in the mentioned bug-findutils thread. I understand your point: in the Cygwin port the ratio of platform specific reports is extra high. But it is still a port, and the upstream maintainers are often eager to hear about problems with the Cygwin port, some of them might have a Cygwin port at their hand, etc. Let me give an example: how would you feel if Fedora modifies the package so that it tells the users to report to bugzilla.redhat.com? Besides the usual excuse that we can filter out our platform specific problems, we could also argue that bugzilla database is more sophisticated system that unreliable SMTP mailing lists, handled by host which has poor spam filtering, and thus gets often listed in black-lists? Sure such a step of Fedora would induce negative feelings. When we hand out Fedora, we tell people: ``if you experience any problem, we'd be grateful if you tell us through the bugzilla.'' But then the man pages and --help texts point to the upstreem bugzillas or bug mail lists. I'm sure this is the right blend for Fedora. And, IMHO, this is the right blend for Cygwin, too. Perhaps you could make the voice of the installer stronger: I can imagine that a window pop's up on the first start of the ``Cygwin shell'' saying: ``Please add bug-bug@xxxxxxxxxx to your address book. Thank you for choosing Cygwin. We hope you'll enjoy it; but since nothing is perfect, you might encounter some problems: we'd like to hear about them in that case. Would you be so kind to insert out bgu report address to your address book: it's bug-bug@xxxxxxxxxx Thanks.'' Have a nice day, Stepan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
