Re: bug-buddy integration

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:42:12 +0100, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Brian Nitz <Brian Nitz sun com> wrote:
> > Luis Villa wrote:

> >   - optionally passes bug first to a distribution maintained bug  
> > database.
> > (to filter distro specific bug pollution)
>
> This is the default behavior distros tend to want... which makes it
> hard for upstream to do anything useful, since the distros are
> historically pretty bad at getting this data upstream. (By 'pretty
> bad' I don't think any distro which does this has ever
> systematically/programatically moved that data upstream, though I'm
> certainly out of touch and may have missed something.)

I am not sure about the current status of this upstream pushing work.
I did intensive triaging work up to the Gnome 2.22.x cycle. I remember  
Sebastien Bacher
manually pushed quite some downstream (Ubuntu) reports to us, and all
those came with excellent debugging traces. Saw this occassionally from
Gentoo, too. However I do not remember this from any other of the
big distros.

It would be helpful if someone could give us a brief outline of the  
different
reporting systems distros are currently using. We may want to pick the
best cherries and adopt them. We should do more collaboration here.

--
Christian Kirbach