Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christoph Wickert wrote: > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > bugs. I'll probably reply to more stuff in this thread at a later point. (I've been noticing this thread for a while, but it's a lot of stuff to read and probably reply to.) But I'll point out that t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:31 -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On 3/31/2010 14:18, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately > >> portraying what deficiencies are alive while still all

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 3/31/2010 14:18, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately >> portraying what deficiencies are alive while still allowing >> maintainers to efficiently track which issues they've resol

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Juha Tuomala wrote: > They've modified the bugzilla way too much and thus logged in users > cannot for example change version or component which causes that > there is way too much of entries that would need some kind of manual > work and they lack the manpower to do that. >[...] > They do give the

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Bugzilla is OSS. Those with the talent and inclination to do so could try > lending a hand to existing efforts to improve branch/release handling: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55970 > > I found that bug quickly by searching

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:09:51PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:56 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Till Maas wrote: > > > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > > > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:30:08 +0300 (EEST), Juha wrote: > > Why would I want to clone a bz ticket if I did not want to fix the > > bug in anything other than Rawhide? > > Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? Is that an answer or a question? Anyone who wants to search the d

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? Bugzilla has multiple uses. The upstream project goes to some length describing it as a flexible tool. We in fact use it for multiple purposes. We use it for package review tickets

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/03/31 21:47 (GMT+0200) Till Maas composed: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:29:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> It'd be nice to have better handling for this in a future Bugzilla >> release, but I think it might require considerable internal changes, >> though I'm not an expert; it doesn

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Why would I want to clone a bz ticket if I did not want to fix the > bug in anything other than Rawhide? Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? I could be wrong of course, please correct me if I am. Considering that existing

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:15:30 +0300 (EEST), Juha wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches the fix

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 01:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I would suggest proposing those changes you have in mind to dkl, There > is a internal bugzilla list. The problem is this isn't an area where I can be terribly constructive; I can point at the problem but I've nothing to offer in the way

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:56 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard > > Keywords, and then implement another Bugzilla Frontend that uses the >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Till Maas wrote: > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard > Keywords, and then implement another Bugzilla Frontend that uses the > XML-RPC interface of Bugzilla to provide a Frontend that can be better

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:29:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It'd be nice to have better handling for this in a future Bugzilla > release, but I think it might require considerable internal changes, > though I'm not an expert; it doesn't strike me as something simple to > patch in. Maybe it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > As I said in another mail, Launchpad isn't better in all respects, it's > not a simple decision. Also, currently Bugzilla is shared with Red Hat > and hence benefits from management by dkl and other RH staff; On the other hand, none of the bugzill

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 00:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/01/2010 12:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > An alternative is to change the version to Rawhide and then you can use > > CLOSED RAWHIDE. You should usually have the reporter's agreement before > > doing this, though. > > > > Once

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 12:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > An alternative is to change the version to Rawhide and then you can use > CLOSED RAWHIDE. You should usually have the reporter's agreement before > doing this, though. > > Once again I note that Launchpad handles this noticeably better than > Bugzi

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately > portraying what deficiencies are alive while still allowing > maintainers to efficiently track which issues they've resolved to > their satisfaction. I've thought abou

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:15 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches the fix is

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > > If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > > close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? The latter seems t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > No. I'm asking for you to clarify that you feel clone is appropriate > for wide spread use for the specific situation I'm commenting on. We > are very much stuck in a trap of designing our workflow to fit the > tools we have, instead of designing our t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> >> Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would >> normally close as fixed rawhide? > > Are you saying, that everyone facing that bug, should search from every > relea

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would > normally close as fixed rawhide? Are you saying, that everyone facing that bug, should search from every release if that has been handled somewhere else other than the product i

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:15:30PM +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > that's why there is 'clone' functionality. Use it. Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would normally close as fixed rawhide? -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > and which of those release branches the fix is provided. that's why there is 'clone' functionality. Use it.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > That's just your perception and I don't see any consensus on that.  The > bug is fixed and fixed only in the development branch and this is a > fairly common thing to do for upstream projects as well as > distributions. because the fix is to

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 13:34, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:20:40 Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily close it "WONTFIX" a

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 06:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Well this is what I call "cheating the user" and "maintainer lying at > themselves about their package's state" and why I consider "FIXED > RAWHIDE" to be non-helpful. > > The maintainer did not fix the bug a "reporter" filed, but left it > unres

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 02:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 05:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >>> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:20:40 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > >> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > > > Why do you advocat

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 05:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>> >>> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >>> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. >> >> Why do you advocate WONTFIX

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> >> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? Because it is how s user perceives

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 13:32:24 Frank Murphy wrote: > On 31/03/10 12:25, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 03:45 P

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 12:25, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > which will make fixing bugs in curren

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: > On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > >>> which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > >> > >> Not at all.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:57:30 Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:50:10 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:50:10 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > > > > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the cu

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >>> which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. >> >> Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release >> or it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release > or it is not. Telling users to get it from Rawhide w

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release or it is not. Telling users to get it from Rawhide was never a valid resolution. It is a workaround in some very

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 10:10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >> Then ask the user Could you try "yum --enablerepo=rawhide update foo" >> > >> From Fedora 13 onwards, this repo is not even installed by default which will make fixing bugs in current even more important.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? The latter seems the more accurate status considering that I did fix it in Rawhide. Rahu

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 10:44 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags >> are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be >> fixed". >> > > So, I get a minor bug report not wort

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle >> bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file >> an upstream bug report at bugs.kde.org and set

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 02:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Then ask the user Could you try "yum --enablerepo=rawhide update foo" > >From Fedora 13 onwards, this repo is not even installed by default because users quite often used to enable this accidentally and had to reinstall their systems. > I know it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 09:44, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags >> are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be >> fixed". >> > > So, I get a minor bug report not worth pus

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2010/3/31 Stephen John Smoogen : > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 01:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a cheap bold

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags > are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be > fixed". > So, I get a minor bug report not worth pushing an update for in the general releases but

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Dick Tayter
On 31 March 2010 08:28, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > So please - start reporting again - I hope I explained what does "UPSTREAM" > resolution mean. I can't promise you, we (Fedora, KDE SIG, KDE upstream or > whoever) fix the bug but... > I had a bug some time ago in Okular that I reported and was to

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 04:26:12 Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > > bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file > > an upstream bug report at bugs.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 01:56:56 Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. > > Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report > > upstream - in which case the maintainer s

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/31/2010 01:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>> As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a >>> cheap bold lie packagers use as weak excuse to for

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Linuxguy123
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file > an upstream bug report at bugs.kde.org and set the bug to NEEDINFO. If > the reporter doesn't

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 01:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a >> cheap bold lie packagers use as weak excuse to for not being able to fix >> a bug having hit a user. >> >> In oth

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:56 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. > > Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report > > upstream - in which case the maintainer sho

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. > Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report > upstream - in which case the maintainer should politely ask them to; > sometimes it makes more sense for t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 09:13 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:10 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > > > > But still bugs are fixed by program developers not Fedora developers. > > IMO 'Fedora developers' (really, what you mean here are packagers, I > guess) should strive

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a > cheap bold lie packagers use as weak excuse to for not being able to fix > a bug having hit a user. > > In other words: "FIXED UPSTREAM" does not fix anything for

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:11 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > > 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski : > > > 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : > > >> I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > > >> The maintainer should not redirect the bugr

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Oliver Falk wrote: > > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > Me too. > > Except that I would not want to restrict this complaint to Fedora KDE. > > There are many other maintainers who

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 13:09:46 Christoph Wickert wrote: > > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > > bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file > > an upstream bug report at bugs

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:25:50 -0400, Orcan wrote: > > What is RH bugzilla for, when not using for bugs in fedora? > > For packaging related bugs, or bugs related to Fedora specific > customizations on packages. What you call "Fedora specific customizations on packages" may be also the chosen comb

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Thomas Spura wrote: > Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 21:05 +0200 schrieb Thomas Spura: >> Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 19:47 +0200 schrieb Oliver Falk: >> > I also agree with "Fine". Pkg maintainers are responsible for their pkgs. >> > And of course not everybody is able

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 21:05 +0200 schrieb Thomas Spura: > Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 19:47 +0200 schrieb Oliver Falk: > > I also agree with "Fine". Pkg maintainers are responsible for their pkgs. > > And of course not everybody is able to fix any kind of bug... > > I also agree with Christop

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Spura
Am Montag, den 29.03.2010, 19:47 +0200 schrieb Oliver Falk: > Yeah. Kick out KDE! Use XFCE! Flamewar! *g* +1 :D > > Just jokin'... > > I also agree with "Fine". Pkg maintainers are responsible for their pkgs. And > of course not everybody is able to fix any kind of bug... I also agree with Ch

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Oliver Falk
Yeah. Kick out KDE! Use XFCE! Flamewar! *g* Just jokin'... I also agree with "Fine". Pkg maintainers are responsible for their pkgs. And of course not everybody is able to fix any kind of bug... Josephine Tannhäuser schrieb: >2010/3/29, Michał Piotrowski : >> I don't see any problem here

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2010/3/29 Till Maas : > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:20:57PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a >> cheap bold lie packagers use as weak excuse to for not being able to fix >> a bug having hit a user. >> >> In other words: "FIXED U

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 15:13:56 Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:10 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > But still bugs are fixed by program developers not Fedora developers. > > IMO 'Fedora developers' (really, what you mean here are packagers, I > guess) should strive to become

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:10 +0200, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > But still bugs are fixed by program developers not Fedora developers. IMO 'Fedora developers' (really, what you mean here are packagers, I guess) should strive to become 'program developers' for the packages they maintain. Getting

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/29 Josephine Tannhäuser : > 2010/3/29, Michał Piotrowski : >> I don't see any problem here if KDE SIG just declare "we don't fix KDE >> bugs, we just update packages". > wtf? You can not be serious! > It's the duty of every maintainer to accept responsibility for his/her > package(s). > If t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Josephine Tannhäuser
2010/3/29, Michał Piotrowski : > I don't see any problem here if KDE SIG just declare "we don't fix KDE > bugs, we just update packages". wtf? You can not be serious! It's the duty of every maintainer to accept responsibility for his/her package(s). If there is no responsibility granted for package

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:20:57PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a > cheap bold lie packagers use as weak excuse to for not being able to fix > a bug having hit a user. > > In other words: "FIXED UPSTREAM" does not fix anyth

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 14:16:55 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > 2010/3/29 Jaroslav Reznik : > > On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > >> 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski : > >> > 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : > >> >> I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > >> >> The maintain

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 14:20:57 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/29/2010 02:11 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > >> 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski: > >>> 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk: > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/29/2010 02:11 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: >> 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski: >>> 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk: I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstr

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 13:57:54 Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > The problem is - we can't act as man in middle - it's better when > > original reporter is also upstream reporter = direct communication. > > Wait -- *any* Fedora developer could say t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2010/3/29 Jaroslav Reznik : > On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: >> 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski : >> > 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : >> >> I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! >> >> The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream >> >> bugr

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 14:03:51 Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > 2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski : > > 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : > >> I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > >> The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream > >> bugreporting plattform. I already have

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2010/3/29 Michał Piotrowski : > 2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : >> I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! >> The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream >> bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream >> bugzillas because of exactl

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Oliver Falk wrote: > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! Me too. Except that I would not want to restrict this complaint to Fedora KDE. There are many other maintainers who apply a similar strategy and therefore deserve the same amount of flam

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:35 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > The problem is - we can't act as man in middle - it's better when original > reporter is also upstream reporter = direct communication. Wait -- *any* Fedora developer could say this about any bug. I just don't think it's true, and it as

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2010/3/29 Oliver Falk : > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream > bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream > bugzillas because of exactly this... > I don't see any problem

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 13:38:52 Oliver Falk wrote: > I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! > The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream > bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream > bugzillas because of exactly this...

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Oliver Falk
I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph! The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream bugzillas because of exactly this... -of Christoph Wickert schrieb: >I am irritated by the

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Monday 29 March 2010 13:09:46 Christoph Wickert wrote: > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file > an upstream bug report at bugs.kde.org and set the bug to NEEDINFO. If > the reporter doesn't re

Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-29 Thread Christoph Wickert
I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file an upstream bug report at bugs.kde.org and set the bug to NEEDINFO. If the reporter doesn't respond, the bug is closed NOTABUG or WONTFIX. But if the bug has be