On Friday 30 September 2011 22:19:40 Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Freitag, 30. September 2011, 17:12:01 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > > The bugtracker in it's current state does not help to increase the quality > > of the software. In fact the quality decreases as the developers have to > > spend time on managing garbage. Yes what we get is garbage. Most of the > > reports in KWin are either a duplicate of a driver bug (which has so many > > duplicates that you cannot miss it) or is a duplicate which is already > > fixed. Most bugs we currently get are either version 4.6.2 (latest version > > in Kubuntu) or 4.6.0 (latest version in openSUSE). If at all there are > > useful bugs they come from Arch users with a recent version. > > So what's the reason for this? Why do distros not offer official updates for > the KDE version they ship? I think it is because they are afraid of > regressions. And it is because they do not have an expert for every component > in KDE but would have the obligation to fix every regression they shipped as > official update even if upstream would not care. So how could one solve this > if the fact that distros stick to whatever version they shipped is not > acceptable? For the bugtracker I think there is a simple solution. If a user has 4.x.y and there is a released 4.x.z with z>y don't accept the bug report but give the user the information where to request the newer version.
If a user has a 4.x.y and there is a 4.w.z with w>(x+1) don't accept the bug report and give the user the information that he has to update his system to a newer version. I doubt we can change the way distributions release their software. As it was mentioned in this or another thread: the distributions are always interested in the last released version, which is not in sync with what the developers are interested in. And I don't think redirecting the users to the distro's bugtracker is a solution. It just moves the problem. Cheers Martin
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