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.

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