In Gentoo...

Posted Jan 20, 2011 5:00 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (guest, #23346)
Parent article: Reporting bugs upstream

In Gentoo, what I've done is ask users to pass bugs through us first. If they appear to be upstream issues, we ask them to file upstream bugs but CC us, and we try to provide help on how a particular project likes its bugs reported. This keeps us in the loop so that we can track progress (and make sure some actually happens) as well as help either side where needed.

The point made by Brian Carlson seems to be a strawman to me. Is he actually filing a bug for every one of those 2,405 packages? If so, he clearly has a lot of free time on his hands and can probably afford another 30 seconds to register for a bug tracker for each since of course writing a good bug report takes much longer than that.

In Gentoo...

Posted Jan 22, 2011 4:49 UTC (Sat) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]

As a very happy Gentoo user I want to say +1 to this. I've reported bugs in Gentoo and upstream many times and I never considered it an undue burden to do so. Yes, some bug trackers are a bit confusing, and if the maintainer of a distro-package wishes bugs reported to her first then that's great and I'm sure we all appreciate them taking on extra work for us. But trying to establish that as SOP seems unreasonable to me.