Re: FOSS needs a central bug tracker

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> The other thing that helps is to make bug-tracking systems work
> together. We already have links to upstream bugs in our bugzilla,
> although we haven't quite automated the 'push this bug, in its entirety,
> to upstream bugzilla' step. We probably should.

But shared accounts are the easiest way to make this happen. Otherwise, how
do you make sure the original reporter is still in the loop when you
upstream the bug? (That's why at least in the KDE SIG we ask the reporters
to file upstream bugs themselves where appropriate.)

        Kevin Kofler