On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:25:15PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Well, speaking as an upstream author, "downstream bugs", so to speak,
> > are quite annoying, in that significant effort has to be expended to
> > track and fix and close them in a dozen different bug tracking
> > systems. It would be significantly more conventient for upstream
>
> You wouldn't have to do that if your downstream maintainer were doing his
> job properly and forwarding the bugs to you.
But the problem is that we have so many downstream maintainers.
AbiWord is distributed by every major distribution, plus it's a part
of GNOME, and of Ximian GNOME. So that's about 10 different BTSs, and
10 sources of bug reports and patches.
Fun. Not.
sam th
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