Venkatraman S wrote:
Now am sure a lightning is gonna strike you and you gonna become green as a
toad!!
Have you contributed to Ubuntu? or aware of the development/bug-reporting
process in Ubuntu?
LOL. Am sure you haven't done enough homework to know about the one
you're throwing that question at. To let you know of the fact, Manoj
contributes to Ubuntu's upstream named Debian and hence not only Ubuntu
but a lot of other distributions which are fed by Debian makes use of
his contribution.
If not, then let me summarize for you : It clearly says that a bug found in
upstream can either be fixed by the developer or be passed upstream - and i
personally have done this and also know that along with me thousand others
do the same.
Yes, but what we do in launchpad is we mark an upstream bug to our bug
so that we can keep in track of upstream improvements on that bug. This
doesn't ensure that when a patch is submitted in LP, it is
auto-forwarded to the upstream bug tracker (From what I know about bugs
and LP). It needs manual effort in filing the same patch to upstream as
well and following it up. A few people do this and what Debian guys here
mean is more people should come forward and do this, which is absolutely
agreeable. There is also a new feature in LP that helps us to monitor
bugs which has some relation with upstream, mostly something which needs
to be reported upstream and followed up. A very few triagers have
started doing this and it will become more helpful if the downstream
patches are also filed upstream.
This is an unfortunate situation in the FOSS world - consolidation and
cooperation is something that the FOSS world lacks - attacking different
schools of development should be refrained from and the best teachings of
all schools should be nurtured(as what Kapil referred to) and cultivated. I
am waiting for a true-next-generation OS that would be a mix(+advanced) of
the present OS'es and give it for free.
We have always welcomed the criticisms from Debian and that's something
which has been always poking Ubuntu to improve. May be someday we will
satisfy them enough :)
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With Regards,
Parthan "technofreak"
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