On 7/19/06, Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis Villa wrote: > > * distros are all crap at getting their bugs upstream, pretty much. > > (Some are slightly better than others, at various times.) > > So now that we've got XML-RPC support in bugzilla, it would be insanely > cool if someone could write interfaces and code to let you do > cross-bugzilla refiling / mark as duplicate / mark as depending on or > blocking. (Including cross-bugzilla notifications of relevant changes.) > > So like, someone files a bug against the panel on SLED, we figure out > that it's an upstream bug, but we still want to track it, because it's > still a bug against our product too, and it's affecting a customer. So > we click a little "refile this upstream and mark the local bug as > depending on the upstream one" button, which does just that. Then if we > investigate further, we can add comments upstream, or if someone else > fixes it and closes the bug upstream, we'd get a notification of that, > and can apply the fix and close our bug.
I strongly believe developing and maintaining such tools would be a very worthwhile investment for the various distros- it would reduce the duplication of QA by all parties (which is pretty brutal overhead right now), increase the speed that fixes get to users (again, a win for all parties), so on, so forth. I'd even be willing to argue that this is something a paid bugmaster should do, or at least help the distros' QA teams with. Obviously not going to be me at this point, but something I think the board and advisory board should keep in mind. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
