Re: F24, small backward steps

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Hi,

To be clear, the problem is that a small handful of package maintainers
(including Bastien) are collectively "responsible" for all of the GNOME
and freedesktop components in Fedora (including fprintd), and it's
simply not reasonable to expect them to read all the bugs that are
assigned to them, let alone take the time to forward them upstream. If
you use Red Hat Bugzilla, the right developers may never notice your
bug report at all.

You have a much better chance filing bugs upstream. You should only use
Red Hat Bugzilla for these components if you happen to know there is a
specific maintainer who actually looks at the Red Hat bugs for that
specific component, or if you're planning to propose it as a release
blocker, or if you just don't care whether anybody sees your bug. If
you have a packaging bug then it's the right place, but please ping
someone to be sure it gets noticed.

Of course this is not how Bugzilla is intended to work, but it is how
it actually works for GNOME stuff. It's unfortunate, but without some
Launchpad-style automatic bug forwarding, this is going to remain the
case indefinitely.

Michael
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