Hi,
It used to be that when I was running mono built from source, I would report problems to the Mono bugzilla. Now I'm running from the FC rpms, should I report it to both, especially as the bugs I'm seeing are upstream problems?
TTFN
Paul
Paul F. Johnson wrote:
Hi,
It used to be that when I was running mono built from source, I would report problems to the Mono bugzilla. Now I'm running from the FC rpms, should I report it to both, especially as the bugs I'm seeing are upstream problems?
Upstream bug tracker is the better place for issues that you are sure is not a Fedora specific problem. If there are major issues that needs to be fixed before releases you might want to provide a reference in Fedora bugzilla too to keep track on the issue in the distribution.
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:56 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
Hi,
It used to be that when I was running mono built from source, I would report problems to the Mono bugzilla. Now I'm running from the FC rpms, should I report it to both, especially as the bugs I'm seeing are upstream problems?
TTFN
In general its almost always better to file bugs upstream if there is a an upstream bugtracker and upstream is active. The people reading the redhat bugtracker for a particular module is often someone who isn't deeply knowledgable about the code, and often have little time to fix deep issues with it, whereas an upstream bug per definition goes to the person who knows the code best, and has the most time/interest to work on it.
Some bugs are clearly (and sometimes not-so-clearly) packaging bugs or issues that affect the module as part of the whole distro. These bugs needs to be in the redhat bugzilla. Furthermore, its good to have really bad bugs (e.g. ones considered blocking/targeted for the release) in the redhat bugzilla so we can track them for the release.
There are always exceptions to these things though. Some modules are developed by redhat, some upstreams mainainers use the redhat bugzilla, some upstream modules have much longer release-cycles so we need to get fixes in before the next release, etc. Use you best judgement.
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