[CentOS] how to get bug fixed by TUV

Thu Jul 30 11:23:07 UTC 2015
Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>

On 30 July 2015 at 13:22, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Redhat guys are normally responding very well to bug reports from
> Centos users. They don't seem to differentiate. Using bugs.centos.org seems
> quite pointless. I normally just use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/.
>

Sorry for the top post. Didn't have my coffee yet...



>
> On 30 July 2015 at 13:12, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> On 07/30/2015 03:37 AM, Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
>> > hi all,
>> >
>> > i have a general question (a bit surprised ti's not on the centos faq):
>> >
>> > we found a bug in a package in a centos install, and we are wondering
>> > what the best approach is to get TUV to fix it (and release an update),
>> > so it gets fixed in centos rebuild and thus on our nodes. or at the very
>> > least to get it on their todo list ;)
>> >
>> > bugs.centos.org seems an obvious candidate to get them reported via
>> > centos to TUV, but as centos doesn't modify the sources, i'm wondering
>> > if it is the correct way.
>> >
>> > so is there a way to funnel these through bugs.centos.org to TUV, or
>> > should we get our own (minimal?) support contract with RedHat. if it's
>> > the latter, any tips what contract to choose? (money isn't really the
>> > issue if we don't have to register all our centos nodes (and i wouldn't
>> > mind having access to the KBs if that came with the contract ;))
>> >
>> >
>> > stijn
>> >
>> > the bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248003 (i
>> > consider it a bug and not a feature since it used to work with EL6, and
>> > people upgrading might run into this; but i guess it's all semantics ;)
>>
>> This is a good question.
>>
>> bugs.centos.org is out there for the CentOS Community to use to report
>> issues they find ... and for the Community to find and fix issues that
>> are reported.
>>
>> The CentOS team will only fix issues that we "introduce" with some
>> change we make.  We will not fix issues that are also in RHEL until
>> those issues are fixed there and released in source code that we then get.
>>
>> What this means is, we need the CentOS community to look at
>> bugs.centos.org and to see if they can validate all bugs.  We also need
>> members of the community who might also have RHEL subscriptions to see
>> if those bugs also exist in RHEL.  If they do exist in RHEL, then an
>> upstream bug should be filed there.
>>
>> In fact, we are looking to start a program to do this ... called CentOS
>> Bug Wranglers.
>>
>> Bugs are only going to be fixed if they are reported to Red Hat (again,
>> unless we somehow introduced them only into CentOS Linux).
>>
>> People don't need to wait for the formal program to begin though ..
>> anyone who wants to make CentOS better can look though and validate bugs
>> and report ones that also exist in RHEL to Red Hat.  Anyone can create
>> an account on bugs.centos.org and the Red Hat bugzilla.  The only way we
>> are going to get things fixed is to work on it as a community.
>>
>>
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