On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:29 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 20:36 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > On Jan 19, 2008 9:23 AM, nodata <lsof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm talking about closing the bug and telling the reporter to report > > > > upstream, i.e. "go away". > > > > As a package maintainer, what would you like me to do in situations > > > where I need the reporter to talk to upstream? > > > A reporter should never be supposed to talk upstream, because he is > > reporting an issue a problem with the product (your package) you are > > supposed to be responsible for, not against the product an upstream > > ships to you (the source tarball). > > It might very well happen that the packager can't reproduce the problem > (doesn't have the exact hardware, whatever). Yes, it _might_ happen, nobody denies this, but ... ... this is far from being the rule/norm. Often reporters are ordinary user, who actually don't have much clues about an application's internals, who "just reports something" he considers to be a "bug" or an application "misbehavior". Forcing them to "go upstream" would mean to push them into a forum they often aren't really interested to participate in nor competent enough to participate. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
