On Friday 09 January 2004 10:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le ven 09/01/2004 à 00:50, Ronny Buchmann a écrit :
On Thursday 08 January 2004 20:56, Enrico Scholz wrote:
steve@silug.org (Steven Pritchard) writes:
Personally, I think style issues should be reserved for *after* any package has made it into testing, at least.
No, when a package is in a public repository it is too late. People will begin to use this repository as default one since it has lots of cool packages. Since packages are already published, bugreports will have a low priority for the packagers and bugs stay forever (rawhide is a good example).
I don't think this is a problem. When rawhide bugs are not maintained this mostly means they are gone or they didn't really exist or the reporter has no real interest in it.
Or the reporter has no wish to make a pest of himself. I've personally open enough bugzilla entries in different systems over the years to be confident my reports can be exploited. When I open a bug I follow it and answer whatever questions the developer has. Now more than once I had questions asked after I opened a bug, and nothing happened after I answered them (sometimes just a few hours after they were submitted).
At this point I won't waste my time prodding the developer anymore. Hell, by the time I've written up a report I usually have one or two ugly workarounds I'm making use of. I'm usually not opening bugs because I'm stuck. I'm opening them to improve the overall Fedora/Red Hat quality because I'm grateful for the service they provide, and I don't pay for the systems I install on my personal computers. It's up to the distribution QA to follow up on my reports. If they choose not to do it, I certainly won't try to force them.
(and when I can't follow on a bug I write it but this only happened to me once or twice so far)
Yes, current RH bugzilla can be really annoying. But we are discussing about fedora.us / the future.
ronny