On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 13:22 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: 
> Am Sonntag, den 11.07.2010, 06:14 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> > Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > > I don't know if Fedora has an official stance documented somewhere, but
> > > I personally would support Eric's viewpoint.  A Fedora maintainer should
> > > be responsible for all the bugs in the package, even if that just means
> > > forwarding them upstream.  
> 
> It is indeed documented in the wiki: "If there are bugs which you aren't
> capable of fixing yourself because they deal with intricacies of the
> source code which you don't fully understand, then you still need to
> address these bugs. It can be helpful to work with the upstream
> maintainer of the code, ..."
> see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_responsibilities

It's not clear to me whether that refers to true upstream bugs or only
to Fedora-specific bugs that are too intricate to solve without upstream
help.

-- 
Matt


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