hi all.. i've started a hotlist on techbase[1] of release critical upstream issues. i've started with a couple of the more important ones for Qt4 and the one for Xine.
i'll be maintaining this list (hopefully with help, but even without) to keep track of all release critical issues that deal with upstreams. this is not for security issues, that happens elsewhere. this is not for small annoyances or "regular" bugs, we have bug trackers for this. this is not to replace a bug tracker, but is needed because most of these issues are tracked outside of our own bug system. the goals are: * to have a hotlist of _critical_ upstream issues so that we can keep track of those during release cycles and so we can also point, for example, our two Trolltech liaison people at it rather than bombard them on the mailing lists. * to avoid our own developers hacking around serious upstream problems unnecessarily simply due to lack of upstream communication i was inspired to do this due to dealing with several patches that did exactly the above for exactly the above reasons. something is wrong with our process right now, and given my past experience with dealing with e.g. Trolltech it's almost purely communication based. if you think this is a bad idea, let's come up with alternatives. if you think this is a good idea, i'd like to announce this on k-c-d. [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/Upstream_Issues -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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