On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:56 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. > > Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report > > upstream - in which case the maintainer should politely ask them to; > > sometimes it makes more sense for the maintainer to report upstream. It > > very much depends on the circumstances of the bug. > > For me it comes down to one test. If I can reproduce it, I can be the > one to carry the torch to upstream and I can invite the original > reporter to come along for the ride. > > If I can't reproduce it, I have to get upstream and someone who can > reproduce the problem talking somehow or the report is just going to > bitrot. That means one of several things: Right. That's pretty much exactly the rule of thumb I use too. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
