On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 08:04:14AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:58:15 -0400, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I don't think it's silly at all. First of all, I'm making a request, > > I'm not demanding they do this. Firefox has 306 open bugs (well, 271 > > if you don't count merged bugs), so it's a fairly buggy (and > > popular) piece of software. Especially in the case of random feature > > requests, it's merely taking time away from fixing other bugs, to > > having to forward them upstream. So if the submitter really cares > > about the feature, they can spend a little more time sending it > > upstream instead of just creating busy work for the maintainer. I've > > provided a link to the submission page, and bugzilla is a pretty > > standard and popular bug tracking system (even though I don't > > particularly like it, and many are of the same opinion). Do you > > really think people will be so discouraged that they'll give up all > > together instead of just filing the Debian bug. > > When a Debian user starts using a debian, they should be > assured full service bug reporting.A user may not be aware of the > myriad upstream bug tracking systems for all the packages they use, > so it is natural to go to the common debian BTS. > > Given that, it is important that the feature requests also be > recorded in the VTS, for no other reason than to savbe you time as > other people look at the BTS, find nothing, and send in a duplicate > feature request. > > My personal choice is to forward the bug reports in the cases > it makes sense, after triaging the report (yes, I triage rteports to > save my upstreams time); and in cases it makes sense, I ask thre > reporter to _also_ send the bug upstream, perhaps with more data (as > reported by M-x gnus-bug, for example). Itell the reporter how to > send such a bug, where to send it, and I request a CC to the > #NNNN-forwarded address.
Problem is for upstream BTS, which don't support email CCs though, but i believe even bugzilla can do that, altough in one of the ugliest way possible. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
