On Jueves 04 Junio 2009 08:59:23 Ralf Corsepius escribió: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Steve Grubb wrote: > >> Not if its closed. How would I be notified that the fix is in Fedora? If > >> the bug is severe enough, shouldn't the upstream commit be applied to > >> Fedora's package and the package pushed out for testing? Is all this > >> going to happen if the bug is closed? > > > > You're supposed to be the reporter of or CCed on the upstream bug, then > > you'll get notified of the fix and can reopen our bug asking for a > > backport of the fix if it's really that important (but keep in mind that > > Fedora packages often get upgraded to a bugfix release anyway, for > > example our KDE gets upgraded to a bugfix release about once a month). > > You are still presuming your users to be interested in developing and > working on your package.
Yes and no - most of our bugs come from well known contributors - it's safe to them to say - please, report it upstream. They just ask as - is it downstream or upstream issue? Are you aware of this issue? If we know/we can see that bugreporter is ordinary user, we're trying to help him report this issue or we simply do it. It's not - upstream, close, shut your mouth, don't bother us! My final conclussion - there are power users, there are ordinary users, some of them of better knowledge, some worst - and we should help them, guide them - it's our work and we have to take care about them individually... There can't be one policy to match all cases... > This simply does not apply - They want to use your package. > > > As maintainers, we will also try to CC ourselves on those upstream bugs > > to track their status, but utilimately it's the reporter who cares the > > most about seeing his/her bug fixed. > > I could not disagree more. People with this kind of attude should lable > themselves maintainer and stop packaging packages in Fedora. You can ask our users if they are satisfied or not. From comments and posts I think they ARE! Check our fedora-kde list, IRC channel #fedora-kde as most of bugs are solved there even before they hit BZ... Jaroslav > Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
