On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:01 +0200, nodata wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:47 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > >> Michael Schwendt <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > As a user, being confronted with "just another feature-overloaded bug > >> > tracker" which contains many new and poorly named and insufficiently > >> > described "products" and "components" and hundreds of open bug > >> reports, it > >> > is a very frustrating experience to spend time on _trying_ to help by > >> > reporting something upstream only to learn that the report is ignored > >> or > >> > closed as duplicate or closed as NOTOURBUG or not been looked at for > >> > many months. > >> > >> Why not adopt some packages, and help out by keeping an eye on bugzilla > >> for > >> them, trying to reproduce bugs, and kick them upstream as needed? That > >> way > >> you don't have to learn about many upstream bug trackers, just a few. > >> -- > > > > If anyone is interested in that, > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers > > > > Rahul > > Isn't this a workaround for bugzilla lacking an easy way to move bugs > upstream? Wasn't the XML RPC interface meant to solve this? Upstream projects use different versions of bugzilla and various other bug tracking systems. There isnt a universal method of doing it automatically. In some cases XML RPC does help. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
