ubuntu-bugcontrol team mailing list archive

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Phillip Susi (psusi@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA512
> 
> Harold Sitter recently pointed me to this page (
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Specs/LucidBugTriagePolicy ) that it
> appears he created describing a change in the Kubuntu bug triaging
> policy that says to invalidate bugs that are present upstream, and ask
> the user to go report it upstream, rather than report it upstream and
> link the launchpad report to the upstream report.  This is in direct
> conflict with the Ubuntu bug triaging policies.  Since kubutu is just
> a respin of the Ubuntu project on launchpad and the bugs comingle,
> this seems rather unwise.

Note that I think this is specific to KDE related things rather than
the rest of the shared distro, and as such I don't think the conflict
is that big an issue (albeit that the user will report a bug and then
get it thrown back at them and told to file upstream which is messy).

Dave

> Was this policy sanctioned by the community council / tech board?  And
> wouldn't it be wise to separate the projects ( on launchpad ) if they
> are going to have radically different policies?  At the very least,
> the Ubuntu policy should be updated to indicate this and describe how
> to tell if a package falls under kubuntu instead of ubuntu.
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
> 
> iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTM3kKAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwFZcH/23/2hFRzydyXZ3z3FsD4zNk
> hIWcDYfi1ffL3UNPM8nkTW5i1rRh7srHd+csvBel8lGrMc2eIGq4oUXApPTIVhhw
> l5/YpVTw1LMzRQefAmQ3s2RcsQ38gMD7feKvRwINrl2fsnxIK91/LpwZkw5303mm
> T8gIW9Yy6pRVH0R6HyZAXD9NL8JQZ5QGQ8FDIwJ79fFifQlqtvcivbX4IK9lHRfA
> PGo2ZfpgV5V9cLSHFcIqQQulVCLt5ufJQECr1cWwpjwqDcCiQn15v6JmhEBjgd08
> ZK+emoIPC8TL2URk/FY/g3KnJMUVZXopE+b2qq8XQiQdze8YWj+WhiVC9HcHXH8=
> =4KYN
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol
> Post to     : ubuntu-bugcontrol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-bugcontrol
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
-- 
 -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code -------   
/ Dr. David Alan Gilbert    |       Running GNU/Linux       | Happy  \ 
\ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org |                               | In Hex /
 \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org   |_______/