Bug#526779: Forwarding bugs upstream (Was: Bug#526779: battery-applet: Misleads about still charging)
Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> In my view, what you have wrote is completely contrary to the spirit
> and the wording of section 3.5 of the Debian Developer's Reference:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developer-duties.html#upstream-coordination
>
> I refer specifically to this sentence:
> "A big part of your job as Debian maintainer will be to stay in
> contact with the upstream developers. Debian users will sometimes
> report bugs that are not specific to Debian to our bug tracking
> system. You have to forward these bug reports to the upstream
> developers so that they can be fixed in a future upstream release."
>
> With this wording it would appear that the onus does fall on KDE
> developers to forward this to upstream.
>
> I invite your comments.
So you have found the Developer's Reference. Nice. The problem is, that
we have no way to realize what is written there. We simply have not the
manpower to forward the tons of upstream bugs we receive. KDE is a very
very huge beast and we are very less developers. Sou our choices are to
a) Package new releases and fix packaging bugs, or b) Forward bugs
upstreams.
So, what do you prefer? It is not that we are to lazy to forward the
bugs, we would love to do it. But sadly it is not possible.
I find it way less rude to tell you that it is not likely that we
forward the bug upstream instead of letting the bug rot the next 3 years
and then as you to report if the bug still applies.
I hope you get the point.
Everyone is welcome to join the team and forward bugs btw...
Greetings,
Armin
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