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smoke screen?smoke screen?Posted Oct 1, 2008 18:16 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: smoke screen? by s0f4r Parent article: Ubuntu debuts its Upstream Report If Ubuntu contributed nothing to the kernel but contributed big-time to Gnome and freedesktop.org projects, that would still be a huge service. While it wouldn't help those who are only interested in Linux as a server or embedded OS, it would still be a big contribution. However, upstream shouldn't be asked to deal with Lauchpad; Ubuntu contributors to upstream should deal with making sure that bug reports are handled properly in upstream projects' bug-tracking systems (likewise for other distros).
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smoke screen? Posted Oct 2, 2008 3:54 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
When a bug watch has been added in Launchpad, it means someone has triaged the distribution bug report and either (a) linked it to an existing bug in the upstream or (b) filed a bug upstream and linked to that. When this is working correctly, the upstream developer wouldn't be required to look directly at Launchpad (but could if they wanted to).
This is basically the same way Debian maintainers interact with upstream, but with a bit more automation of communication with upstream bug trackers (and more automation planned for the future).
The report gives a good indication of how well that process is going.
smoke screen? Posted Oct 2, 2008 5:23 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Debian has bts-link, which basically does the same thing, but without the report:
smoke screen? Posted Oct 2, 2008 5:33 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
Sounds cool. I wonder if the Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla could be extended to allow bts-link to communicate with them?
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