On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 17:27 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > I'll happily raise upstream bugs myself but it irks me when maintainers > close Fedora bugs with the UPSTREAM resolution without actually taking > the upstream fix and bringing it into Fedora. > > If I've reported a bug in Fedora bugzilla it's because the bug is > present in Fedora and I'd like to see it fixed *in Fedora*. So seeing a > bug closed UPSTREAM doesn't help at all if I have a real problem with a > Fedora package. In Mandriva I had it set up so Bugzilla has both an UPSTREAM *resolution* and an UPSTREAM *keyword*. This handles this situation. If, say, the bug is in a package that gets frequent releases, and was filed on the development release, you can just use CLOSED UPSTREAM, because you can rely on the fact that there'll be a new upstream release of the package soon after the upstream report is fixed, you (the maintainer) will then naturally package the new release, and the fix for the bug will have been rolled into the distribution package without you having to do anything besides your normal packaging work. In other situations, you can set the UPSTREAM keyword, so the bug remains open but you know it's being handled upstream and you need to bring the fix downstream once it's available upstream. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
