Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity

Posted May 15, 2010 18:36 UTC (Sat) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity by paulj
Parent article: Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity

If someone can replicate a bug on Fedora why shouldn't they be able to file them with Fedora

Because at the point that you can replicate it in multiple distributions it's clearly an upstream bug, not a Fedora bug.

Besides which, I'm not sure that's the point - surely the problem is that Canonical is selling people contracts in which they agree to support Ubuntu, despite (apparently) not having the necessary expertise to actually do that. Would you buy a support contract from them if all they're going to do with the hard problems is file a bug with Redhat? That's an awfully expensive way to avoid having to deal with bugzilla.

Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity

Posted May 16, 2010 10:36 UTC (Sun) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828) [Link]

Whether or not it's an "upstream" bug isn't really quite the point; having a distro-specific bug allows you to track the progress of that bug within the distribution and talk about when the fix was released for Fedora.

You wouldn't want to be doing this across the board, but to complain that someone has tested your distro for a bug and then filed it when they found it seems to be extremely bad manners to my mind.

Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity

Posted May 20, 2010 7:59 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

"*all* they're going to do ... is file a bug with Redhat"?

AFAIR, Kees opened an upstream bug before. He included a link to that in his RH report.

FTR: I use neither RHEL, Fedora, nor Ubuntu on my company or personal systems; I use openSUSE. So I'm not partial about any party. But having read about that storm in the teapot, I side with Kees and find yours and others accusations distasteful, as they leave off a very important part of that picture: that a non-kernel developer wanted to raise awareness of a serious bug and went to great length to develop test cases and confirmed that it is an upstream bug by testing the problem on another distribution now gets flamed for all his activity.

Obviously he is only allowed do so after Canonical has hired more kernel developers. That's ridiculous.

Canonical Goes It Alone with Unity

Posted May 26, 2010 21:32 UTC (Wed) by BackSeat (guest, #1886) [Link]

Because at the point that you can replicate it in multiple distributions it's clearly an upstream bug

No. At the point when you can reproduce it with upstream source (as was the case here) it's clearly an upstream bug.