Re: Introduction: new community guy, and some discussion

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 03:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > As I see it there's two areas for action here: deciding whose
> > responsibility it is to determine what bugs should be in Fedora BZ and
> > what bugs should be in upstream (and codifying that somewhere in the
> > Wiki), and deciding if it's a good idea to have some kind of policy for
> > 'exceptions' where an upstream bug is tracked in Fedora BZ or if it
> > should just be handled on a case-by-case basis.
> > 
> > What do you guys think?
> 
> I think a case by case basis is just confusing. To make it easy on bug 
> reports, there should be a policy to just file it downstream and let 
> triagers and maintainers handle it as necessary. This is how some other 
> distributions like Gentoo, Debian etc handle it.
> 
> Also I have tried to define cases, where Fedora needs to handle it in
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
> 
> This does include both your main points.

Cool, thanks for that link. Sorry, I should've been clearer - I was
talking at the triage level, not the filing level. I don't mean to have
a policy you have to read when filing a bug, as you say, it makes most
sense to file most stuff at distro level and have someone involved with
the distro make the decision what to shovel upstream. I meant whether we
have a policy for the shovellers, or they just have basic guidelines and
use their judgment.
-- 
adamw