On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> In Launchpad, for anything in universe, the typical experience is that >> your bug goes into a black hole until a month or two later someone sends >> you some form letter about it. > > That's why I stopped reporting bugs against Fedora years ago, they kept being > automatically closed a couple of releases later. I would report a bug in RHEL > and have it not deemed suitable for an update to the current release (which > was fair), I would report it against Fedora and then it would be closed > automatically. > > The Red Hat bug tracking system is less efficient for me than the Debian one. > The ratio of bug reports that they receive to the number of bugs that they can > fix is obviously worse than that of Debian. So the end result is that people > like me are deterred from filing bug reports and people with less ability to > correctly diagnose problems find it easier.
> It seems to me that the Debian bug tracking system is better than that of Red > Hat. I don't recall anything about the Ubuntu bug tracker so I can't comment > on that. > > In recent times I haven't bothered trying to report bugs against other > distributions. When I find a bug in some other distribution I develop a work- > around for it there and then try to reproduce it in Debian. If I can > reproduce it in Debian then I file a Debian bug report. > > -- I agree it will be nice also like forwarded to cross reference bug in other distro bugzilla and automatically detect whan other distro have cooked a patch instead to found it manually. Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimvse0ajli1cn7awjslsz2wymq-gdzrui2h-...@mail.gmail.com
