Maintainer Responsibilities

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:

> [...]  If the bug is important enough to block one of our trackers,
> we won't close it UPSTREAM, we'll even try to fix it on our own (and
> then upstream our fix) if upstream doesn't come up with a fix soon
> enough.

If you "CLOSE"/UPSTREAM it and force your user to report it elsewhere
instead, you won't know one way or another.

> But we can't reserve that treatment to every single KDE bug, there
> are too many!

Thank you for that moment of candour.  It illuminates what is
really motivating the disagreement about proper process.

- FChE