Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Forwarding bugs upstream"): > I personally would love to see patches to the BTS to enable forwarding > these kinds of bug reports to upstreams more easily and integrate > everything tightly with the BTS. Unfortunately, I am perpetually short > of time to implement them myself, as excellent as I am certain they > would be.
That would be a very nice feature for our BTS to have. BUT any such feature should only be enabled with respect to an upstream BTS after discussion with and approval from the relevant upstream. As we can see from this and previous discussions: how easy to make it to file bugs, who can file them, how they get to be filed, and so on, are things that people care about and have strong opinions about. Different projects have different cultural and technical expectations. Anecdote: while I was employed by Canonical I had to dissuade some of my colleagues from implementing and deploying, without consent from Debian, a feature in Launchpad that would automatically file corresponding bug reports in the Debian BTS. I expressed the view that doing so would be considered abuse by the Debian BTS admins and would probably result in some emergency ad-hoc wholesale blocking of Launchpad's access to Debian infrastructure. Not to mention an absolutely enormous flamewar. To all of us that would obviously have been a really bad idea. Let us be careful not to do to our upstreams what we don't want our downstreams to do to us. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19759.4171.832216.535...@chiark.greenend.org.uk