On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:58:24 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > There should be an automatic "forward" button in bugzilla, which the > developer could click, and have a "linked" bug-report automatically > created at upstream bugzilla. The reporter should then be able to use RH > bugzilla, but having it automagically forewarded to upstream bugzilla. And how does Red Hat bugzilla know how to create a bug report in an upstream bugzilla? Do you really expect that somebody implements a wrapper interface for the forms of each individual upstream bug tracking system and keeps it up-to-date? Further, how to add two-way communication channels between upstream developers and bug reporters? There's really no way to avoid that users create an account in upstream's bug tracker, so they can respond to questions. Not even mentioning all the projects who take bug reports by e-mail only. There is nothing wrong with reporting bugs first to the last link of the chain, the package creator/developer, the distributor or repository maintainer, respectively. Package owners might know whether a problem is restricted to the custom builds, e.g. due to any patches, feature configuration or dependencies. But if the packager thinks something like an RFE is better reported upstream, it boils down to a matter of laziness and whether the reporter is really interested enough in an application as to contact its developers. In the world of other operating systems, it's no different. -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.9-1.667 loadavg: 1.31 1.25 0.67
