Re: Directing Debian users to use project BTSes - should we?
On Feb 04, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> My $0.02,
>
> All bugs should endup in DBTS, for reasons others have stated.
>
> Communication between Debian maintainers and upstream ia a Good
> Thing[tm], atleast an introduction. If the upstream maintainer really
> wants all unfiltered debian bug reports the Debian maintainer's
> procmail can take care of this.
Presumably, if the oft-requested feature to "take an interest in
particular bugs or packages" in debbugs is implemented, all the
upstream would have to do is "take an interest".
I don't know if there's any easy way to monitor whether the bugs list
for a particular package has changed at the moment, since the
canonical access method is through CGI and I don't know if stuff like
Netmind plays nicely with that.
Ideally, some sort of bug management tool would be nice. reportbug
(more properly, the query module) should probably include something
that will automate producing mails to control@debian.org and
forwarding bugs upstream (and also *marking* them as forwarded in the
BTS); obviously, this behavior should not be the default. But
something like:
querybts --manage reportbug
would be nice. Now to add this brainstorm to the TODO list :)
Chris
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