Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:14:44PM -0500, John Ellson wrote: > > > Its incredibly frustrating and demoralizing to report a bug to Fedora, > > only to > > have the Fedora maintainer close the bug with the response that the user > > (what a dummy!) should have reported it upstream! Yes, this has > > happened to me. > > > > I propose that it be a policy that Fedora maintainers are themselves > > responsible > > for forwarding the bug upsteam if necessary. At the same time the status > > of the Fedora bug can be left open with tracking information to the > > upstream bug. > > In a lot of cases, users working directly with upstream instead of having > someone playing middle-man is going to get things turned around a lot > faster. Especially in cases where the bug relates to a specific piece > of hardware, for eg. > > What would be *really* awesome would be the possibility of having > a facility in bugzilla to escalate a bug to upstream, so a couple of > clicks, and the bug is entered in the appropriate bugzilla, with > all comments being reflected back into the one the user entered the > bug into. I believe there is some work going on in this area, but > it's slow moving. > > Dave > > The bug that made me thinking about it was a bug in libwnck that I noticed after the update yesterday. I checked the redhat bugzilla en the gnome bugzilla, there weren't any reports about it. I checked the spec file and there were no extra patches. So this was abviously an upstream bug. I filed it upstream and about 2 hours later the maintainer had a patch and comitted it to cvs. Because monday new tarballs were released it will take some time before they will be in fedora I guess. So that's why I asked it here. Because it could help saving the fedora maintainer some time. Bart -- Bart Vanbrabant <bart.vanbrabant@xxxxxxxxxxxx> PGP fingerprint: 093C BB84 17F6 3AA6 6D5E FC4F 84E1 FED1 E426 64D1
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