On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:56:07PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Santiago Vila écrivait: > > Perhaps we should open the Bug System to upstream maintainers by adding a > > flag to every package. If this flag is on, reports are automatically > > forwarded to a given upstream email address. I'm sure many upstream > > authors would ask this flag to be enabled for their packages, even if this > > means a small percentage of received bugs happen to be packaging bugs > > which would not have to be forwarded in normal circumstances. > > I can't believe it, usually I don't agree with you but here I do ! That's a > pretty good idea. I'm sure that for most of the packages, there aren't > that much Debian specific bugs and since the author can choose I don't see > a reason not to implement it. Even better anybody should be able to > register himself in the BTS so that he'll get all the bugreports for > a specific package (or source package, but that's something more difficult > to implement I guess) ... this would allow several maintainer to maintain > the same package without using an alias or a list.
Following a specific bug request and/or a specific package is always a feature I would like to see in the BTS. Currently, the only way to follow a bug already mentions on the BTS is to make a new bug report and merge it to the old. Having the possibilities to add someone to a specific bug reply will make it possible to form a bug test team for all people who has the same bug, and will greatly help to follow specific policy amendment (and futurely QA tasks ;) without necessarely being subscribe to the specific mailing lists. > > Adding to this the possibility to have architecture specific bugs, and > distribution specific bugs, and we'll have the best BTS around the world. > Ok, who does it ? ;-) We should at least report it has a wish list against debbugs. Hmm... it's already done by Lars (bug# 34071) and has more than a year already (03-03-1999). Seems the idea wasn't that original ;) > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ > <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd > Formations Linux et logiciels libres : http://www.logidee.com </pub> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
