On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:21:34PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Christoph Wickert wrote: > >A note to all Fedora maintainers and especially to the Red Hat people > >who are involved in development every day: > > > > Please fix your bugs [1] in the release they were > > filed against instead of just closing them NEXTRELASE! > > Doesn't that depend on how serious the bugs are? Sometimes upstream has > gone way ahead, changed their configuration format etc and backporting > the fix or just pushing the update with all the other changes is too > invasive. While there may well be some bugs that are too complex to backport to the current supported release, this is not the general case. I have had faaaar too many bugs I've reported against F9/10 with trivial fixes only ever fixed in rawhide. This can be really discouraging & annoying as the end user reporting the issue. Of course on the flip side, I'm guilty of only fixing some of my own components' bugs in rawhide too, when I could have backported fixes. I think package maintainers need to be more aware of the fact that users want their bugs fixed in the release they are using, unless there's a good reason why not. So if a maintainer has to close a F9/10 bug against rawhide only, then please do curtosy of telling the user why it is not pratical to fix it in stable release it was reported against. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
