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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, x11 <x11@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:59:24
Message-Id: 55E34478.6010605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Better way to direct upstream bugs upstream? by Matt Turner
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4 Matt Turner schrieb:
5 > Worse, users sometimes file bugs in our bugzilla that we don't have time
6 > to respond to for a while during which time they're waiting on people
7 > without the ability to help them.
8 >
9 > Is there a better way of directing reporters to file bugs upstream? Of
10 > course it's not always clear whether a bug is an ebuild bug or something
11 > easily patched in Gentoo vs a driver bug that requires an upstream
12 > developer...
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14 I think such bug reports are still useful. They can point to patches once
15 the issue has been resolved upstream, for consideration in a new ebuild
16 revision.
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18 Whether they are kept open or resolved UPSTREAM while an upstream fix is
19 unavailable I have no strong opinion about.
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22 Best regards,
23 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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