Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 01:56:56 Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. > > Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report > > upstream - in which case the maintainer s

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 04:26:12 Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle > > bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file > > an upstream bug report at bugs.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Dick Tayter
On 31 March 2010 08:28, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > So please - start reporting again - I hope I explained what does "UPSTREAM" > resolution mean. I can't promise you, we (Fedora, KDE SIG, KDE upstream or > whoever) fix the bug but... > I had a bug some time ago in Okular that I reported and was to

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags > are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be > fixed". > So, I get a minor bug report not worth pushing an update for in the general releases but

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2010/3/31 Stephen John Smoogen : > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 01:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> As a user, having been hit by a bug, "CLOSED UPSTREAM" is nothing but a cheap bold

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 09:44, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags >> are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be >> fixed". >> > > So, I get a minor bug report not worth pus

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 02:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Then ask the user Could you try "yum --enablerepo=rawhide update foo" > >From Fedora 13 onwards, this repo is not even installed by default because users quite often used to enable this accidentally and had to reinstall their systems. > I know it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:09 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: >> I am irritated by the way the KDE SIG and the KDE bugzappers handle >> bugs. For most bugs that are reported they demand the reporter to file >> an upstream bug report at bugs.kde.org and set

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 10:44 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 07:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Then let me put it more bluntly: To a Fedora release's user, both tags >> are a slap into the face of "reporter" and mean "your bug will not be >> fixed". >> > > So, I get a minor bug report not wort

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? The latter seems the more accurate status considering that I did fix it in Rawhide. Rahu

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-31 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:21, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 16:33 +0100, Till Maas wrote: >> 8. The package updated sucessfully, but was not used intentionally. No >> breakage noticed. >> >> This shows, that at least on the test machine, there are no broken deps, >> conflicts or

Re: Drop Xorg Nv driver?

2010-03-31 Thread drago01
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 16:48:06 -0700, >  Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> If you're on f13, you can install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental and try >> it. If it breaks you get to keep both pieces :) > > Please update us on when he is ready for

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 10:10, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:38 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> >> Then ask the user Could you try "yum --enablerepo=rawhide update foo" >> > >> From Fedora 13 onwards, this repo is not even installed by default which will make fixing bugs in current even more important.

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Mathieu Bridon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:21, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 16:33 +0100, Till Maas wrote: > >> 8. The package updated sucessfully, but was not used intentionally. No > >> breakage noticed. > >> > >> This shows, t

Please help figure out why NanoEngineer-1 is crashing

2010-03-31 Thread Mary Ellen Foster
Hello all, I'm reviewing the package "NanoEngineer-1". The package seems to be clean, but unfortunately it crashes on my computer when I try to run it but not on the packager's computer. If anyone could figure out what's going on, it would be very helpful -- I'm feeling bad about how long this rev

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release or it is not. Telling users to get it from Rawhide was never a valid resolution. It is a workaround in some very

Re: Please help figure out why NanoEngineer-1 is crashing

2010-03-31 Thread Mary Ellen Foster
Sorry, used the wrong email address for CC'ing the packager ... MEF On 31 March 2010 11:30, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm reviewing the package "NanoEngineer-1". The package seems to be > clean, but unfortunately it crashes on my computer when I try to run > it but not on the pac

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release > or it is not. Telling users to get it from Rawhide w

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: >>> which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. >> >> Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the current release >> or it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michal Hlavinka
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:50:10 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > > > > Not at all. Either the bug is important to fix in the cu

KDE-SIG meeting report (13/2010)

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply to this email or add it to the related meeting page. -- = Weekly KDE Summary

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-31 Thread Björn Persson
Till Maas wrote: > Even > if an update is there to fix something, it does not mean that one can or > will test it completely (special hardware might be required). In this > case it is still interesting to know, whether it installs cleanly or > not. And testing whether it updates cleanly can still b

Re: Update testing policy: how to use Bodhi

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > Even > > if an update is there to fix something, it does not mean that one can or > > will test it completely (special hardware might be required). In this > > case it is still interesting to know, whether it inst

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:57:30 Michal Hlavinka wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:50:10 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > > which will make fixing bugs in current even more important.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: > On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > >>> which will make fixing bugs in current even more important. > >> > >> Not at all.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 12:25, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 03/31/2010 03:45 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > which will make fixing bugs in curren

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 13:32:24 Frank Murphy wrote: > On 31/03/10 12:25, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:55:58 Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On 31/03/10 11:50, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:26:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 03:45 P

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> >> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? Because it is how s user perceives

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 05:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> >>> >>> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >>> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. >> >> Why do you advocate WONTFIX

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:20:40 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > >> close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > > > Why do you advocat

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/31/2010 02:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 05:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> >>> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/31/2010 06:11 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Well this is what I call "cheating the user" and "maintainer lying at > themselves about their package's state" and why I consider "FIXED > RAWHIDE" to be non-helpful. > > The maintainer did not fix the bug a "reporter" filed, but left it > unres

File ORLite-1.42.tar.gz uploaded to lookaside cache by mmaslano

2010-03-31 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
A file has been added to the lookaside cache for perl-ORLite: b35d8820cc4f4e367fdfe8f1c86ae029 ORLite-1.42.tar.gz -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

rpms/perl-ORLite/devel .cvsignore, 1.7, 1.8 perl-ORLite.spec, 1.8, 1.9 sources, 1.7, 1.8

2010-03-31 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
Author: mmaslano Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-ORLite/devel In directory cvs01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:/tmp/cvs-serv5359 Modified Files: .cvsignore perl-ORLite.spec sources Log Message: * Wed Mar 31 2010 Marcela Mašláňová 1.42-1 - update Index: .cvsignore =

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Frank Murphy
On 31/03/10 13:34, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 14:20:40 Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 03/31/2010 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily close it "WONTFIX" a

rpms/perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig/devel perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig.spec, 1.4, 1.5

2010-03-31 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
Author: mmaslano Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig/devel In directory cvs01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:/tmp/cvs-serv17313 Modified Files: perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig.spec Log Message: * Wed Mar 31 2010 Marcela Mašláňová 1.03-6 - 564836 remove one of tests Index: perl-ExtUt

rpms/perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig/F-13 perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig.spec, 1.4, 1.5

2010-03-31 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
Author: mmaslano Update of /cvs/pkgs/rpms/perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig/F-13 In directory cvs01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:/tmp/cvs-serv17877 Modified Files: perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig.spec Log Message: * Wed Mar 31 2010 Marcela Mašláňová 1.03-6 - 564836 remove one of tests Index: perl-ExtUti

[Bug 564836] FTBFS perl-ExtUtils-InferConfig-1.03-3.fc12

2010-03-31 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564836 Marcela Mašláňová changed: What|Removed |Added -

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > That's just your perception and I don't see any consensus on that.  The > bug is fixed and fixed only in the development branch and this is a > fairly common thing to do for upstream projects as well as > distributions. because the fix is to

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > and which of those release branches the fix is provided. that's why there is 'clone' functionality. Use it.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > that's why there is 'clone' functionality. Use it. Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would normally close as fixed rawhide? -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:15:30PM +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches t

[Test-Announce] ABRT Test Day - Thursday 2010-04-01

2010-03-31 Thread Kamil Paral
Yes, it’s here again, the April Fools’ Day [1]! If you don’t have your own plans already, let me propose one for you – participate on the ABRT test day! ABRT is a tool that helps reporting program crashes with a few simple mouse clicks. It is a significant part of Fedora operating system and its

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would > normally close as fixed rawhide? Are you saying, that everyone facing that bug, should search from every release if that has been handled somewhere else other than the product i

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> >> Are you saying that we should all clone every report that we all would >> normally close as fixed rawhide? > > Are you saying, that everyone facing that bug, should search from every > relea

Re: Drop Xorg Nv driver?

2010-03-31 Thread Ville Skyttä
On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:44 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:36:29AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Nvidia has announced that they are deprecating it > > > > > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/ar

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > No. I'm asking for you to clarify that you feel clone is appropriate > for wide spread use for the specific situation I'm commenting on. We > are very much stuck in a trap of designing our workflow to fit the > tools we have, instead of designing our t

rawhide report: 20100331 changes

2010-03-31 Thread Rawhide Report
Compose started at Wed Mar 31 08:15:12 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- emotion-0.1.0.042-5.fc12.i686 requires libecore_job.so.0 emotion-0.1.0.042-5.fc12.i686 requires libevas.so.0 emotion-0.1.0.042-5.fc12.i686 require

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 03/31/2010 02:55 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > > If your "unworthy bug" doesn't cause malfunctions, you could easily > > close it "WONTFIX" and add a comment. > > Why do you advocate WONTFIX over FIXED RAWHIDE? The latter seems t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:15 +0300, Juha Tuomala wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches the fix is

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately > portraying what deficiencies are alive while still allowing > maintainers to efficiently track which issues they've resolved to > their satisfaction. I've thought abou

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 12:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > An alternative is to change the version to Rawhide and then you can use > CLOSED RAWHIDE. You should usually have the reporter's agreement before > doing this, though. > > Once again I note that Launchpad handles this noticeably better than > Bugzi

[Bug 561568] (amavisd noisy?) sa-update.cron generating errors

2010-03-31 Thread bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561568 Brian changed: What|Removed |Added -

Re: Drop Xorg Nv driver?

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 20:58 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2010, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:44 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:36:29AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Nvidia has announced that t

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 00:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/01/2010 12:42 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > An alternative is to change the version to Rawhide and then you can use > > CLOSED RAWHIDE. You should usually have the reporter's agreement before > > doing this, though. > > > > Once

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/01/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > As I said in another mail, Launchpad isn't better in all respects, it's > not a simple decision. Also, currently Bugzilla is shared with Red Hat > and hence benefits from management by dkl and other RH staff; On the other hand, none of the bugzill

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:29:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > It'd be nice to have better handling for this in a future Bugzilla > release, but I think it might require considerable internal changes, > though I'm not an expert; it doesn't strike me as something simple to > patch in. Maybe it

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Till Maas wrote: > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard > Keywords, and then implement another Bugzilla Frontend that uses the > XML-RPC interface of Bugzilla to provide a Frontend that can be better

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:56 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard > > Keywords, and then implement another Bugzilla Frontend that uses the >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 01:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I would suggest proposing those changes you have in mind to dkl, There > is a internal bugzilla list. The problem is this isn't an area where I can be terribly constructive; I can point at the problem but I've nothing to offer in the way

F-13 Branched report: 20100331 changes

2010-03-31 Thread Branched Report
Compose started at Wed Mar 31 09:15:06 UTC 2010 Broken deps for i386 -- gnome-web-photo-0.9-4.fc13.i686 requires gecko-libs = 0:1.9.2.1 hornsey-1.5.2-0.1.fc13.i686 requires libclutter-gst-0.10.so.0 libnodeupdown-backen

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:15:30 +0300 (EEST), Juha wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Unfortunately our ticketing tool doesn't do a great job at this, as we > > can't take one ticket and mark multiple release branches it affects > > and which of those release branches the fix

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Juha Tuomala
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Why would I want to clone a bz ticket if I did not want to fix the > bug in anything other than Rawhide? Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? I could be wrong of course, please correct me if I am. Considering that existing

[Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Beta RC#3 available for testing

2010-03-31 Thread James Laska
Greetings, Fedora 13 Beta RC#3 is available for testing. Release candidate #3 includes a fix for F13Beta blocker bug#578391. Please refer to the summary sent earlier by Hurry for test focus areas [1]. If you are interested in providing feedback against the Beta release criteria [2], please cont

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/03/31 21:47 (GMT+0200) Till Maas composed: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:29:26PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> It'd be nice to have better handling for this in a future Bugzilla >> release, but I think it might require considerable internal changes, >> though I'm not an expert; it doesn

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Juha Tuomala wrote: > Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? Bugzilla has multiple uses. The upstream project goes to some length describing it as a flexible tool. We in fact use it for multiple purposes. We use it for package review tickets

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:30:08 +0300 (EEST), Juha wrote: > > Why would I want to clone a bz ticket if I did not want to fix the > > bug in anything other than Rawhide? > > Because it's a database of release's bugs, not a todo list? Is that an answer or a question? Anyone who wants to search the d

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Till Maas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:09:51PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:56 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > Till Maas wrote: > > > Maybe it would be enough to somehow store the information in Bugzilla, > > > e.g. using a flag for each supported release or some Whiteboard >

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 16:54 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Bugzilla is OSS. Those with the talent and inclination to do so could try > lending a hand to existing efforts to improve branch/release handling: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55970 > > I found that bug quickly by searching

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Juha Tuomala wrote: > They've modified the bugzilla way too much and thus logged in users > cannot for example change version or component which causes that > there is way too much of entries that would need some kind of manual > work and they lack the manpower to do that. >[...] > They do give the

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 3/31/2010 14:18, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately >> portraying what deficiencies are alive while still allowing >> maintainers to efficiently track which issues they've resol

Re: Upstream bugs vs. Fedora bugs: KDE people do it wrong

2010-03-31 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:31 -0500, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On 3/31/2010 14:18, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 09:07 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> I'm asking for a sketch of a policy that would do better at accurately > >> portraying what deficiencies are alive while still all

F-13-Beta Go/No-Go Meeting @ 2010-04-01 00:00 UTC Recap

2010-03-31 Thread James Laska
Greetings, Representatives from Fedora QA, Rel-Eng and Development met on IRC to review whether the Fedora 13 Beta release criteria [1] have been met. The team agreed that the Beta criteria have not been met, and to slip in the F-13 schedule by one week. For additional details, please refer to th

Fedora 13 Beta Slip 1 week

2010-03-31 Thread Jesse Keating
Despite a heroic effort by developers and testers, we have not been able to reach Beta release criteria by the time of the Go / No Go meeting. There are still unresolved bugs and unknown test results. Because of this we've enacted a 1 week slip of the Beta release date. This does not mean we will

Re: Bugzilla usage

2010-03-31 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 3/31/2010 2:53 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > No one has so far defined a workflow that requires an accurate audit > of active deficiencies in any release. Closing bugs fixed rawhide > certainly cause some annoyances because closed bugs are marginally > harder to search for (because you have to requ

Re: Bugzilla usage

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > This is why I actually really enjoyed the brief period that bugzilla > automatically searched closed bugs, though I can see why that isn't > sustainable.  Perhaps it could automatically search closed bugs for > supported releases? Or perha