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[James Olin Oden]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:51:59PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Adrian Likins wrote:
> > 
> > > when it comes time to decide priorites on
> > > what gets fixed, things not in bugzilla
> > > are easily lost. 
> > 
> > Or worse ... repeated ad infinitum.
> > 
> > In bugzilla bugs and RFEs are visible until fixed, but on
> > a mailing list they'll just drop out of people's memory
> > by the end of the week/month.  This means a mailing list
> > like this will see popular feature requests at least once
> > a month, always followed by pretty much the same replies,
> > flames, etc...
> > 
> > Bugzilla is just nicer ;)
> 
>   Totally agree, I will just point out that if the bug is likely
> to not be related to a Red Hat specific fix, it could be more
> efficient to bugzilla to the upstream project, especially for
> projects like XFree86/GNOME/KDE, etc ...
>   Maybe we should build a Buzilla list associated with package
> name and the given target module (other bug reporting system would
> be fine too).
>
That would be really nice.  The tactic I often use is to create the bug
on the original project bug tracker, and then create a bugzilla 
report in RedHat's bugzilla.  This lets both the software maintainers and 
the package maintainer know of the issues.

Cheers...james  
> Daniel
> 
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