On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:21:34PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Christoph Wickert wrote:
A note to all Fedora maintainers and especially to the Red Hat people who are involved in development every day:
Please fix your bugs [1] in the release they were filed against instead of just closing them NEXTRELASE!
Doesn't that depend on how serious the bugs are? Sometimes upstream has gone way ahead, changed their configuration format etc and backporting the fix or just pushing the update with all the other changes is too invasive.
While there may well be some bugs that are too complex to backport to the current supported release, this is not the general case. I have had faaaar too many bugs I've reported against F9/10 with trivial fixes only ever fixed in rawhide. This can be really discouraging & annoying as the end user reporting the issue. Of course on the flip side, I'm guilty of only fixing some of my own components' bugs in rawhide too, when I could have backported fixes. I think package maintainers need to be more aware of the fact that users want their bugs fixed in the release they are using, unless there's a good reason why not. So if a maintainer has to close a F9/10 bug against rawhide only, then please do curtosy of telling the user why it is not pratical to fix it in stable release it was reported against.
Regards, Daniel