On Jan 28, 2008 12:45 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For all distros perhaps being more aggressive at forwarding downstream > bugs to the upstream mailing list would be a good thing. I know that > I have not been doing that as much as I should.
I could not agree more. I often find that there are bugs or patches of which I had no knowledge because they were never forwarded upstream. In my case, I'm referring to findutils, and the Debian packager for findutils is easily the most communicative of all the distribution contacts. So much so, that I don't even know who the relevant person is for (afaict) any other distribution. (I've BCC'ed him to let him know I appreciate his work while still sparing his blushes). However, nevertheless I have subscribed myself for findutils and locate (with pts-subscribe). The downstream maintainers do a lot of valuable work in making the various tools work together in sensible ways and in doing triage of bugs. However, should it be the case that I make a boneheaded call on a feature or transition[*], seeing the influx of bug reports to the distibutions is an important signal that somethng has gone wrong. I fear though that there may be memebrs of the mailing list who might be deterred by the increased level of email. That wouldn't include me though, I think (famous last words...). [*] Case in point: the short-lived change in find's regex syntax. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
