On 07/13/2010 01:15 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Again, not so black and white. If a reporter is knowledgeable, he
or
she might just prefer working directly with upstream and there is
nothing wrong with that either.
Neither did I say it was.
But without any interaction with the reporter the maintainer has no way
of finding out if the reporter is knowledgeable enough.
Many components in bugzilla show little to no interaction with reporters
and in many cases packagers/maintainers look at reporter(s) more of a
nuance than an actual useful resource at their disposal to help improve
the component they are responsible for and ship with Fedora and thus
improve the overall quality of the distribution.
JBG