Neil Williams left as an exercise for the reader: > 2: Each derivative has their own needs to bug tracking and it's more > reasonable (IMHO) to use Debian as the common interface for derivatives > based on Debian and assist each derivative in tracking upstream (Debian) > bugs in the downstream bug trackers rather than adding derivative > tracking to the Debian systems. I couldn't agree more with your gist here. The issue I see is buy-in; not many derivatives seem interested in DBTS integration, or at least consider it an issue of great import (based off what I've read in your and Paul's responses). I'm personally interested in this more for Debian's benefit than derivatives'. Debian will be here long after I (and SprezzOS) lose carrier. Paul's "postmortem reports" on what can be salvaged from defunct derivatives tend to run rather slim; if things were being moved upstream *in media res*, I suspect that would be more effective in ensuring improvements reached Debian (and would probably save derivatives some wasted effort on considered, but rejected, ideas). A major issue in any kind of automatic integration will be loss of information as bugs move from one tracker to another. Loss of information suggests loss of bijection, and loss of bijection suggests inability to automate. I'm intimately familiar with neither the details of DBTS nor PTS, though, so perhaps my worries are unwarranted. --rigorously, nick -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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