On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:17 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 20.1.2012 00:31, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > Currently, the official bug lifecycle includes the following phrase: > > "The resolution UPSTREAM can be used by maintainers to denote a bug that > > they expect to be fixed by upstream development and naturally rolled > > back into Fedora as part of the update process. Ideally, a comment > > should be added with a link to the upstream bug report." > > > > I've seen quite a few bugs lately closed with this resolution (mostly in > > the Evolution and GNOME projects for me personally). It seems to me that > > this is terribly useless in terms of informing users when their bugs are > > fixed. > > You are completely right, except: > > * since I wrote > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/79936/ nobody > did anything on numerous Bugzilla bugs like > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123130, > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380493 ... if you know > about any Perl hacker who would be willing to help, these bugs could be > a good place to start, That's a fantastic idea, and probably an ideal solution. Unfortunately, we're also talking about a minimum of several months' work to get that in place, just on the engineering side. Not including the deployment testing period. > * BugZappers more or less failed to do any meaningful change in the > state of our Bugzilla (that's to the large part my failure, but that's > how it is) and there is just too few of them, I'm not sure about what you meant here. > * this really sounds like proverbial "somebody else should do > something" ... Well, the proposal I'm making is the one that I've been following personally in my own projects, which I feel is providing better service to my users. I agree that if we had the solution you propose above available, that would meet (or exceed) the same need.
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