Thread: 'Fixed in Fremantle' and Diablo community SSU
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2010-08-19 , 07:24
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Originally Posted by buurmas View Post
A meta-question for you, lma. How should we handle the stream of questions that start with "Is it theoretically possible for community SSU to fix [insert description of bug]?"
First determine whether it's possible at all (source available under a F/OS licence), then see whether someone has already tackled the bug (you'd be surprised).

Of course, if the answer is "yes", then the next question is "Then would you (or somebody) please?"
That's the million dollar question isn't it. On the other hand even if we only manage to collect and package all existing fixes I'd still consider the project a success.

One idea would be to have a "Community SSU" area of bugzilla (not just a search keyword) where we can have this dialog in an orderly manner.
We do now, product "diablo-community-updates" under Extras.

Here's a test case: Is if possible for the community SSU to fix the metalayer-crawler bug?
Not directly (not a free package), but maybe Nokia could be persuaded to publish it (unsupported) in the repository under non-free.
 

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