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Re: relationship with Ubuntu - call for feedback



On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:51:41 -0700
Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de> wrote:

> [about patches lost in bug reports]
> In my perception the orphan patches are an indikation of an
> insufficient integration of upstream in the respective packaging
> process. For everyone of us days only have 24 hours. Some

Unless you cross the international dateline, or DST comes into effect :p

On a slightly more serious note, everyone only having a limited amount
of time is a reason to forward things upstream *first* (or when a patch
is applied), and saving multiple people the effort of merging and
maintaining that patch.

> inter-distributional bug triage (one stop shop) may indeed be helpful
> also to appeal to upstream more. This in an ideal world would also
> integrate Fedora and OpenSuSE. I personally use the PTS a lot for
> indications of Ubuntu bugs. 

There are various attempts at getting infrastructure all distros can
work together/share on, never seems to work out properly. :/

thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS)
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