When to file "tracking" bugs in RH bugzilla

Göran Uddeborg goeran at uddeborg.se
Wed Aug 13 21:43:11 UTC 2003


Havoc Pennington writes:
> What I would say is, file a bug on redhat.com if you think the bug is
> a candidate for the CambridgeTarget or CambridgeBlocker lists Bill
> posted about earlier.
> 
> [...]

Thank you for your explanation.  (Not just this part, the whole
letter.)

> > To give some concrete examples to discuss around: I've recently filed
> > three bugs about (localization related) errors in Evolution.
> > 
> >     http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47361
> >     http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47525
> >     http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47529
> 
> It's a judgment call whether these should be on the target list,
> not clear-cut cases.
> 
> If in doubt it can't hurt to file on redhat.com just as a way of
> asking whether the bug should be on the target list, if you link to
> the upstream bug developers can trivially set resolution UPSTREAM if 
> they don't think it should be on the list.

I decided to file the one about empty buttons in the reminder windows.
I'd be pretty confused by that myself if I hadn't seen earlier
versions.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102329





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