[Subject changed - I should know better than to mix multiple issues into
a single message]
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:32, Colin Morey wrote:
> Do we(Exim-Dev), really want a copy of all bugs filed against a build of
> exim for a particular distribution, or do we want to ask the Maintainers
> of the packages to forward all bugs onto the list?
I think the ideal is that all distributions have active and on-the-ball
developers who will deal with build issues themselves, and push
notifications of upstream bugs to the upstream source, ideally with well
tested and decently produced fixes in the form of patches which are
based on a known upstream release.
[takes off rose tinted spectacles]
I also realise that this won't happen.
It appears that in the case of gentoo & debian (as they are at present)
we will be able to depend on the exim component maintainers managing
things appropriately so that real bugs come up to
exim-dev/exim-bugs/bugzilla.
In the case of RH/Fedora as things are at the moment exim appears to be
a poor relation package - its not high on their priority list so things
could get left in their bugzilla to rot. That means real bugs for us
could get lost. This may be best fixed by a couple of interested
volunteers occasionally culling the bug list from RH bugzilla. It would
also be an appropriate situation to have an exim.org address of some
form on the CC list for all exim bugs by default, but I am not sure if
their bugzilla can do that.
Its not too hard for me to add a query to my RH bugzilla account to pick
up all the exim bugs. That may be best for now - I know there are a
couple of other interested RH parties who will also prod us if they
notice things.
But there are other distros... most of whom don't ship exim so I guess
that makes it easier :-)
Nigel.
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