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#64
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Yes.

Realistically, do expect Nokia to keep some updates to bugs, and some entire bugs, private within our happy, public bugtracker though. They're still going to want to keep some details of upcoming releases and devices hidden, and there will still be information that cannot be disclosed due to licensing, security, or whatnot.
Well, I'd hope that can be minimised, but certainly there's a legitimate need to have (some) security bugs hidden, and that's pretty common practice in mainstream Linux distribution bug trackers too.

Still, this will eliminate the excuse of not copying non-sensitive bugs to the public bugtracker one at a time, as they come up, just because it's too much work. Plus, it does away with all that busywork Andre does now playing middleman, freeing his time up for tasks more appropriate to his high skill level.
Yup, it'll be a big step forward. It's not enough in itself, Nokia engineers need to have the confidence that they can communicate openly by default without marketing breathing down their necks (as if hiding things from your customers and releasing software that's less well tested than it could be was good marketing anyway), but it should help.