On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 09:58:15PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Package: mozilla-firefox > > > > Debian maintainers have always assumed full responsibility for their > > work within Debian: they make sure their packages are in excellent shape > > and they take care of all bugreports, either fixing them themselves > > or working with upstream. So I was somewhat surprised when I filed > > a bug on mozilla-firefox and got this message: > > > > *** Please submit non packaging issue (e.g. feature requests) bugs to > > the Debian BTS and the upstream bugzilla > > (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox) and put a > > reference to the bugzilla bug in the Debian bug report, to ease bug > > triage for the maintainers. Thank you. *** > > > > This is silly: it makes filing a bugreport a lot harder for users, > > which can actively discourage them. Users should only have to deal > > with Debian, not with all upstreams and all their different ways > > of handling bugreports. As a maintainer it is your responsibility to > > take care of that. > > I don't think it's silly at all. First of all, I'm making a request,
I think it is silly and possibly counter-productive even, but well. > I'm not demanding they do this. Firefox has 306 open bugs (well, 271 > if you don't count merged bugs), so it's a fairly buggy (and popular) > piece of software. Especially in the case of random feature requests, > it's merely taking time away from fixing other bugs, to having to > forward them upstream. So if the submitter really cares about the > feature, they can spend a little more time sending it upstream instead > of just creating busy work for the maintainer. I've provided a link to > the submission page, and bugzilla is a pretty standard and popular bug > tracking system (even though I don't particularly like it, and many > are of the same opinion). Do you really think people will be so > discouraged that they'll give up all together instead of just filing > the Debian bug. What about a mechanism for transparently forwarding a bug report to upstream instead, in such a way that the link between the debian bug report and upstream bug report doesn't go out of sync ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]