On 8/10/23 3:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Aug 10, 2023, 07:18 by [email protected]: > >> On 8/9/23 8:22 AM, jmake2 via qubes-devel wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> Well, I see Marek's point. I agree, that if the problem happens to be >>> upstream it should be closed with not-our-bug or something. And it happens >>> this way now quite often. >>> But note that Qubes OS users search for their issue and it's better they >>> find closed ticket than no ticket at all. And when people report, most of >>> them are not able to reliably check what happens in the original Fedora >>> that they do not have. That is why all major GNU/Linux distos still keep >>> issues in software that is made by third-party developers, it is a common >>> practice after all. >>> >> >> If you really want to open issues that you know are not Qubes bugs in the >> Qubes issue tracker for this reason, I suppose you can just make it clear >> when you open such issues that they should be closed as "not our bug," and >> I'll just immediately close them with that resolution. Seems a bit odd to >> me, but I suppose it's relatively harmless. >> >>> [...] >>> One the other hand, if the issue is related to f38 only, does it affect >>> R4.2? Currently it does, and it also does affect R4.1, but what will happen >>> when f39 comes out and f38 is EOL? How will it be removed from the >>> affects-4.2 group? Only manually for each of them. >>> >> >> In that scenario, we would simply close that F38-specific issue, since F38 >> has reached EOL. We wouldn't have to worry about removing the "affects-4.2" >> label, because the issue would be closed now anyway. (I think it's fine to >> have the "affects-4.2" label on a closed issue that once affected 4.2.) >> > Well, maybe I am wrong, maybe it is not a good idea to track third-party > issues that affect Qubes OS (even closed). I do not know. > > GNU/Linux distributions do it, but most of them are bigger, not a problem for > them to allow such issues. >
We also allow them, but we close them as "not our bug" because that's what they are, and because they're not actionable for us. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/1abbd6a1-7f1b-4364-2e31-f25f3737e0be%40qubes-os.org.
