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On 09/11/2011 02:42, Bryce Harrington wrote: > The launchpad guys say that GNOME had been on the todo list but they > didn't get it completed, and offhand didn't remember what the specific > blocker was in getting it set up. If it is important let me know and I > can escalate it for the LP maintenance team to investigate further. This is just my personal opinion, but I think it's pretty important for users to be able to remain solely on our bug reports if they wish to do so. I imagine that a non-trivial number of casual users do not want to be registering for accounts over a non-trivial number of bug trackers apart from Launchpad especially if they experience bugs in multiple projects. In fact, I would imagine such a thought going through some of their minds: "I've already signed up on your bug tracker (launchpad) to report a bug on your crappy unstable software that I don't feel like using any further, and now you're telling me to go sign up on another bug tracker (bugzilla) because the upstream developers don't want to come over and communicate directly with me?" On the other hand, it would also be unfair to force upstream developers to chase down users on bug trackers of each distribution their software gets deployed on. Over the last month, distrowatch reports 8 distributions with above 1000 hits per day, 20 distributions with above 500 hits per day, and 98 distributions with above 100 hits per day. The statistic very roughly translates to the number of distributions in active use, but I don't think not many upstreams have the manpower to be chasing down users on this many bug trackers (assuming each distribution has its own). And so, with these thoughts in mind, I've been playing the part of the mindless copy-paste drone that cross-posts comments from both bug trackers so that upstream developers get the information they want. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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