Kevin Kofler wrote:
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
And if i'm not mistaken I think the KDE maintainers that are within the
Fedora community wants
bugs against KDE in Fedora rather to be filed upstream instead of Red
Hat's bugzilla.
Right, KDE bugs should usually be reported to bugs.kde.org. They should get
fixed upstream. Still, filing at bugzilla.redhat.com too can't hurt, worst
case we'll just close it as UPSTREAM, but in some cases we'll backport
fixes or even try to fix it ourselves if the problem is important enough
and easy enough to fix. We just don't have to manpower to fix any and all
KDE bugs by ourselves, not to mention that they should get fixed upstream
so other distributions benefit from the fixes as well.
Kevin Kofler
If you took my source package and built it for inclusion in your distro,
I don't think I would be very interested in helping your users. The
first question I'd need answered, is "What is the difference between the
version you (the user) got from your distributor and what I ship?"
For any significant project, I'm sure I would have entirely enough bugs
of my own to sort out without worrying about bugs you might have introduced.
In the above, don't assume "I" means "John Summerfield" or that you
means "Kevin Kofler."
Possibly the most famous incident of a distributor shipping much
modified code (from a non-release at that) is the gcc project where RH
took the current snapshot and distributed it as gcc 2.96. While RH took
responsibility for its actions, it caused problems for the gcc crowd who
got a lot of bug reports for problems not of their making, and for RH
who got heaps from others, notably MYSQL, for years alleging problems in
gcc 2.96 long after they were fixed.
I would say that, if you get KDE from the Fedora project, then it's
right and proper to report them using the Fedora bug reporting
facilities. If you get KDE from the KDS folk, Fedora doesn't want to
know about it.
Fedora may well report the bug upstream, but that's not a reason to
close it. Closing it implies there's no further action required because
it's fixed (or diagnosed as not a real bug), and the fact of it
remaining open allows people to see that it is so, add to the report and
maybe see what's happening upstream.
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Cheers
John
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