[sane-devel] [RFC] Why I consider downstream bug reports a good thing

2013-02-24 Thread Rolf Bensch
Am 19.02.2013 00:06, schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen: Stef mentioned: Regarding SANE, Id' rather stick to http://www3.sane-project.org/contrib.html so I took a peek at the mirrors (didn't even realize there were any!) and noticed their Latest News entries: www3 2011-02-13

[sane-devel] [RFC] Why I consider downstream bug reports a good thing

2013-02-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Stef mentioned: Regarding SANE, Id' rather stick to http://www3.sane-project.org/contrib.html so I took a peek at the mirrors (didn't even realize there were any!) and noticed their Latest News entries: www3 2011-02-13 SANE-Backends-1.0.22 www2 2005-08-07 SANE-Backends-1.0.16 www1

[sane-devel] [RFC] Why I consider downstream bug reports a good thing

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear SANE folks, Allan wrote in his reply to my message on the mailing list that he considers downstream reports ?pointless? [1]. Here are my arguments why I consider downstream reports good in addition to upstream reports. Comments are welcome. 1. Distributions have different issues to deal

[sane-devel] [RFC] Why I consider downstream bug reports a good thing

2013-02-18 Thread Stef
On 18/02/2013 15:09, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear SANE folks, Allan wrote in his reply to my message on the mailing list that he considers downstream reports ?pointless? [1]. Here are my arguments why I consider downstream reports good in addition to upstream reports. Comments are welcome. 1.

[sane-devel] [RFC] Why I consider downstream bug reports a good thing

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Stef, Am Montag, den 18.02.2013, 17:54 +0100 schrieb Stef: On 18/02/2013 15:09, Paul Menzel wrote: Allan wrote in his reply to my message on the mailing list that he considers downstream reports ?pointless? [1]. Here are my arguments why I consider downstream reports good in