On 07.01.2012 21:48, Christian Trippe wrote:
The rule here is already there, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_KDE and especially http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_KDE#Report_at_bugzilla.novell.com_... But there are a few reasons why it does not always work
* Lack of manpower
* Sometimes, at least for me, it is not always clear, if a bug is caused by KDE or lower in the stack. So if you have no time to do some tests such a bug easily remains unanswered.
But many bugs are closed as upstream and people are told to report bugs first upstream and to reopen if a fix is available there.
It can also happen that one leaves some clearly upstream reports open, after they have been reported there, so that they are more easily found and avoiding duplicated reports on bnc by this.
And IMHO the number of useful reports, this means with a link to a fixed upstream report and the commit has increased with 12.1. So this works to some extend already today.
Of course it would really help if there were a few people more doing bug triage.
If someone wants to helps, here is the howto for KDE on openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Screening_KDE
It is a bit out of date in some of the details, but one should get the idea.
Christian
So either people post problems on that list to discuss if it's upstream or not, or we find something that real solves the problem. I'm really not that good in writing a bugreport and haven't done it that often in my live, so I probably miss the point completely, anyway, we might should work together with the upstream developers more often then we do now. How? Well, I know many KDE guys are using openSUSE due to a) SUSE is traditionally one of the biggest KDE supporters b) Both KDE and openSUSE are Europe-founded projects. I'd rather suggest to ask KDE people to join our list, and work as "upstream experts". The KDE guys know their own code best, so they can decide best if it's upstream or openSUSE-related. Our KDE-team is patching KDE. That's good since KDE becomes a lot more useful due to the patches. Anyway, the devs would do very well by publishing a list of patches and changes they did. I know, this would be hard work, but might be a good chance to find out if something's upstream related, or not. So far, this is everything I'd suggest, hope it helps --kdl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org