On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:25:15PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, speaking as an upstream author, "downstream bugs", so to speak, > > are quite annoying, in that significant effort has to be expended to > > track and fix and close them in a dozen different bug tracking > > systems. It would be significantly more conventient for upstream > > You wouldn't have to do that if your downstream maintainer were doing his > job properly and forwarding the bugs to you.
But the problem is that we have so many downstream maintainers. AbiWord is distributed by every major distribution, plus it's a part of GNOME, and of Ximian GNOME. So that's about 10 different BTSs, and 10 sources of bug reports and patches. Fun. Not. sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key
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