[maemo-developers] QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 13:57 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andre Klapper wrote:
> > However packaging is not a product, but one aspect of a product, so I'd
> > prefer to see bug reports filed against the specific product. In general
> > products should (must?) have a bugtracker - otherwise I consider the
> > developers/maintainers to not be interested in user feedback.
> 
> That's a bit of a leap isn't it?
> 
> This feels like we're trying to re-solve problems that others have been
> working on for a long time. Linux distributions have all added some form
> of "upstream bug tracker" support.
> 
> They all keep packaging bugs downstream, though. If there's a problem
> with your Debian packaging, that problem should get reported to the
> package maintainer, not the software developer.

I think that varies between distros and packages and upstream modules.
We can decide what we want to do.

For instance,
- Ubuntu and RedHat try to think a bit more about GNOME issues and send
them upstream only when they are sure that it's a bug and one they agree
with. They generally try to hide the fact that upstream GNOME exists,
considering it a distraction for most users.
- Ubuntu and RedHat don't care about less important packages, so you
won't get much attention from their bug tracker for them. You can file
distro bugs but you'll learn not to bother. 
- Random Minor Distro users are best to use upstream because they don't
have a bug triage team to send stuff upstream anyway. 
- gentoo users are meant to put everything through the gentoo bug
trackers first. Which is how I (upstream) like it.

I don't have an opinion yet about what's best.

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