On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Oliver Falk wrote:
I had similar issues already and I totally agree with Christoph!
Me too.
Except that I would not want to restrict this complaint to Fedora KDE.
There are many other maintainers who apply a similar strategy and therefore deserve the same amount of flaming.
The maintainer should not redirect the bugreporter to the upstream bugreporting plattform. I already have plenty of accounts on upstream bugzillas because of exactly this...
This still would require a) "reporter" to be interested in getting involved upstream b) "reporter" to be "technically able" to get involved upstream.
In many cases, one or both considerations do not apply.
I don't think there's ever an absolute answer to this question. Sometimes it makes more sense for the original reporter to report upstream - in which case the maintainer should politely ask them to; sometimes it makes more sense for the maintainer to report upstream. It very much depends on the circumstances of the bug.