----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > > To be clear, the problem is that a small handful of package maintainers > (including Bastien) are collectively "responsible" for all of the GNOME > and freedesktop components in Fedora (including fprintd), and it's > simply not reasonable to expect them to read all the bugs that are > assigned to them, let alone take the time to forward them upstream. If > you use Red Hat Bugzilla, the right developers may never notice your > bug report at all. > > You have a much better chance filing bugs upstream. You should only use > Red Hat Bugzilla for these components if you happen to know there is a > specific maintainer who actually looks at the Red Hat bugs for that > specific component, or if you're planning to propose it as a release > blocker, or if you just don't care whether anybody sees your bug. If > you have a packaging bug then it's the right place, but please ping > someone to be sure it gets noticed. > > Of course this is not how Bugzilla is intended to work, but it is how > it actually works for GNOME stuff. It's unfortunate, but without some > Launchpad-style automatic bug forwarding, this is going to remain the > case indefinitely.
Couldn't have put it better, thanks. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
