I read some where in the internet that, canonical is not contributing back to its mother distribution debian.....
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > As far as being a good FOSS citizen, I have always believed that helping > > fixing bugs upstream is better than having distro specific patches. I > > must admit, I cannot say how well Ubuntu does in this regard, however I > > have seen many launchpad bugs referencing the fact that a bug has been > > filed upstream. Unless I see proper data (and not merely > > opinions/hunches misrepresented as facts) as to whether the Ubuntu's > > community has not helped in fixing these bugs (and not merely reporting > > them - which isn't bad per se), > (Sorry for repeating this in another LUG mailing list, but just to keep > the facts right) > > What Launchpad does has is a feature to mark bugs with related bugs > filed in the upstream bugzilla and a feature to find bugs which needs > reporting in the upstream bugzilla. Though this provides the ability for > Ubuntu devels and package maintainers to keep track of upstream > development, as far as my experience with Bugs and Launchpad are > considered, this doesn't ensure that when a bug is fixed in LP/Ubuntu, > the upstream also gets the patch for the same. It requires either the > patch submitter, or the triager, or the maintainer, or the devel to go > to upstream bugzilla and file the same patch for the bug there. If the > maintainer is same in both Upstream and Ubuntu, which is not very common > one, then he/she takes care of patching at both places. Else, it is the > responsibility of one of the above mentioned list of people to do the > job of filing patches upstream and following it up. > > Considering the number of bugs being referred upstream and the number of > bugs that require upstream reporting and followup, the current > availability of people to work on such cases is very less. Hence, there > is a huge possibility of Ubuntu patches getting missed from moving to > upstream. But I somewhere smell that the process of reporting downstream > patches to upstream is also on the cards in the next list of development > for LP. But as LP by itself is a question of debate, unfortunately, I > will not put my hands into it now ;) > > -- > --- > With Regards, > > Parthan "technofreak" > <gpg> 2FF01026 > <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
