On 02/08/17 12:22, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/08/17 11:39, Simon Lees wrote:
On 02/08/17 10:51, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 02/08/17 05:09, Carlos E. R. wrote: I think what you arguing about is more relevant re another option which Petr put forward, namely: "Wontfix/Feature: issue is a feature request/or something that should not be fixed by us".
If it isn't going to be "fixed by us" then who should "fix" the problem reported by a user?
If it is a "feature" requested by a user then to whom should the user have reported the feature in order for it to be considered for implementation?
In both case this is where your comment about "why bother to report anything if it is going to dismissed out-of-hand" comes in.
BC
Hopefully there isn't too many such reports, generally good maintainers will have sent the people to the correct place for feature requests or if they were felling extra nice opened feature requests on there behalf in the right place.
New features don't belong in our bugtracker in almost all cases anyway.
And here is where I have to display my ignorance and ask: Why? Why don't "new features" belong here? Do we -- as in openSUSE, TW, and SLE -- only follow what other distros accept or come up with and we just "follow the pack"?
I suspect that I am misinterpreting what is meant by "new feauters don't belong in our bugtracker" so I would be most please if this could be explained to me -- in a private msg if required so as not to clutter up this thread.
BC
openSUSE as a distro takes a collection of software from various upstream sources take KDE as an example, if you would like a new feature in KDE or Thunderbird or any one of a number of pieces of software we ship, the new work for that feature is likely to be done by a KDE or Thunderbird etc developer not by the openSUSE packager. The better place for that new feature is whichever place KDE or Thunderbird ... use to track new features not our bugtracker. There are some exceptions like simple features related to integration with the operating system that probably do belong in bugzilla but as a general rule in most parts of openSUSE we try to keep as few differences with upstream as possible. For features that are "openSUSE" features rather then features for a specific application we have something called fate.opensuse.org, although most things that end up there don't get worked on for the simple fact that openSUSE is a community orginisation and you can't force someone else to do something for you. Most new features in openSUSE come from someone thinking it would be cool if openSUSE did this then going and doing the work to make that happen rather then someone posting an idea and someone else feeling like they should implement it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B