On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:25:06AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > In my opinion this should be a maintainer choice. Ideally there would be a > support for this choice in Bugzilla. When reporting a new bug against > component X, "bug reporting guidelines" would be displayed (Launchpad already > supports this). The guidelines can say "Please report all your bugs here" (or > be empty), or they can also say "If you bug looks like this, it is a probably > packaging bug, report it here. If you bug looks like that, it is possibly an > upstream bug, please report it at URL". > > Why this should be a maintainer choice? Because it is his time and energy > investment. Speaking for myself, I would be willing to package and maintain > some great packages for Fedora, but only if I don't have to do a "full > support", but just "packaging support". I don't have time nor knowledge for > full-fledged support for various projects. So here's the choice - either we > give the decision to maintainers and we might have a lot of software packaged > in Fedora, or we force them to do full support, and we will have just the > most common software in Fedora (but "perfectly" supported </irony>). >
I'd rather have limited set of packages that are well supported with bugzillas acted upon than load of packages where bugzillas are all NEW or UPSTREAM. -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
