Re: Reporting bugs upstream

["nodata" <fedora nodata co uk>]

> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:47 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> Michael Schwendt <fedora wir-sind-cool org> wrote:
>
>> > As a user, being confronted with "just another feature-overloaded bug
>> > tracker" which contains many new and poorly named and insufficiently
>> > described "products" and "components" and hundreds of open bug
>> reports, it
>> > is a very frustrating experience to spend time on _trying_ to help by
>> > reporting something upstream only to learn that the report is ignored
>> or
>> > closed as duplicate or closed as NOTOURBUG or not been looked at for
>> > many months.
>>
>> Why not adopt some packages, and help out by keeping an eye on bugzilla
>> for
>> them, trying to reproduce bugs, and kick them upstream as needed? That
>> way
>> you don't have to learn about many upstream bug trackers, just a few.
>> --
>
> If anyone is interested in that,
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
>
> Rahul

Isn't this a workaround for bugzilla lacking an easy way to move bugs
upstream? Wasn't the XML RPC interface meant to solve this?