Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I've reported a number of bugs to the Fedora BZ and most of them have > been resolved. None of them have been ignored. Without knowing exactly > what bugs you reported or how you documented them, there's not much else > one can say. > I wish some people were able to easily distinguish between "Fedora" bugs and "Upstream" bugs. I find it a pity that some folks experience problems, may or may not file bug reports, but when they do and they don't seem to get answered/fixed blame it on "Fedora" without knowing or realizing that the bug report has been kicked "upstream". I don't know, as I haven't investigated, if there is a good (any) mechanism in place to have all the various downstream bug reporting facilities be notified/updated on progress of duplicate bugs. I most recently filed 2 bug reports. One was against KDE, the other against the TCP/IP stack. In both cases the bugs were present in the 3 distros I tested. (Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE). With the KDE bug, I filed it directly in the KDE bug reporting system. The TCP/IP problem was filed in Fedora's bugzilla. I can honestly say that I've never encountered a "Fedora Only" bug other than packaging errors. The caveat being, Fedora isn't my primary work system so I don't stress it or use it to any great extent. But, I still have a suspicion that the majority of "bugs" being seen (as opposed to self-inflected problems) are to be found in all distros. Meaning they are "upstream" bugs. In another post, Tim has pondered if we aren't seeking the emergence of "Karl 3.0". An update, Karl is alive and well and dispensing questionable advice on the Ubuntu lists. But, yes, there are similarities between Karl and the OP. This has lead me to mostly refrain from offering any help as of late. Maybe he is being sarcastic, but since he didn't smiley it, I don't know. He has, more than once, made a statement like "Of course, I'm not a geek, not even a suit, so I know nothing." but when he is asked additional questions about his problem or clarifications on what he has said he becomes knowledgeable to the point of saying, at times, the questions are irrelevant. I don't know how one can claim ignorance on the one hand and take issue with questions being asked in an effort to assist. As I said, this behavior has lead me to mostly refrain from offering help...even when I'm confident I could help. For my part, the OP may end up in the same file as Karl did. But I'm of 2 minds. I really don't read any of his rants...I gloss over any actual requests for help (see above) yet it is kind of like watching NASCAR. Sure the race in interesting...but don't we all secretly watch it for the wrecks. :-)
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