Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-07 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 3 September 2015 at 07:17, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. > wrote: > > Do you have specific examples? > > > None that I can currently recall, I've just long resigned myself from > trying to care with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-07 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 9/3/15 10:16 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > Chromium team is no different in this regard. No options, for anything. > It is extremely annoying when they implement 'privacy-violating' > features like the previously visited sites in the New tab (before you've > entered a URL), with no option to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-03 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 03/09/15 04:28, Kent Fredric wrote: > Or for instance, when GMail overhauled their email service, despite > the pleas of developers to have a "Don't top-post by default" toggle > in the settings, the whole developer community was deemed unimportant > and that such a feature could never happen.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-03 Thread Jason Zaman
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:17:16PM +0200, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 8/30/15 12:02 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > Or upstream might be a monolithic giant like Google where their > > upstream bug tracking is some pointless forum where you get ignored by > > the people actually working on things. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-03 Thread Kent Fredric
On 3 September 2015 at 07:17, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > Do you have specific examples? None that I can currently recall, I've just long resigned myself from trying to care with Google products. The instances I can recall were more defects in their web services, some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-09-02 Thread Paweł Hajdan , Jr .
On 8/30/15 12:02 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > Or upstream might be a monolithic giant like Google where their > upstream bug tracking is some pointless forum where you get ignored by > the people actually working on things. Ouch. Do you have specific examples? I'm not denying they exist. I just

[gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Sun, 30 Aug 2015 19:03:37 +1200 as excerpted: I've always seen it as a case where Gentoo devs stand as a layer of sanitization between downstream and upstream. Wherein reporting things upstream is good, but having a downstream tracker for it is also good, so that when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On 30 August 2015 at 21:37, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: In addition to the other services a distro provides, a big one is having one single place to file bugs, instead of a couple hundred different bug tracker accounts on a half-dozen tracker software bases, and that's not even counting

[gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?

2015-08-30 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Turner schrieb: Worse, users sometimes file bugs in our bugzilla that we don't have time to respond to for a while during which time they're waiting on people without the ability to help them. Is there a better way of directing reporters to