On Wed October 3 2007 3:00:00 am Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:27:15AM +0000, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le mardi 02 octobre 2007 à 18:01 -0500, John Goerzen a écrit : > > > No, that is a lot of manual work. > > > > > > I mean something like: > > > > > > $ bug-forward 456789 bacula > > > > > > and have it Just Work. > > > > When forwarding a bug report, the longest task is not opening the bug > > itself, which is just a copy&paste; the trouble is about finding a > > duplicate bug upstream. > > I honestly reckon that I've many times not done this search > thoroughly, and I agree. And I disagree with John about 15 minutes. When > I was triaging the KDE bug tracker, here is how I worked:
This assumes that you are doing a lot of work with one package (or related set of packages), rather than a little work on a lot of packages. My work falls into the latter category for sure. I don't maintain anything even close to the size of KDE, but I maintain many different packages.