On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 18:10 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > We try, but, honestly, we're not much people on that and I don't have > that much time myself. Some people report in Debian and then in upstream > bugzilla, or report to Debian and then look in upstream bugzilla and > find a relevant bug, then mark the Debian bug as forwarded. But there's > no way I can keep track of everything (that's why I advise people to > look at GNOME bugzilla first).
We struggle with the same problem in Fedora. Honestly I rarely even look at Fedora's Bugzilla anymore, other than for rpm packaging issues, and have almost given up on forwarding bugs upstream since they're almost always dupes. I guess five years of this has started to wear me down. Best I can figure out is there's a lack of consensus about what a Free Software distro's role is or should be. We debate this ad nauseum on Fedora lists. Users seem to view distros as one-stop shopping for any software support issue, and I can understand that. Upstream developers (many of whom are also distro maintainers, myself included) view distros as little more than transport layers for their software project and prefer all bug reports be sent directly to the _project's_ bug tracking system, and distro maintainers get stuck in the middle playing traffic cop. Anyway, you're not alone in the struggle... _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
