UDS Prep: Making it easier to fix bugs

[Vishnoo]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:50 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> 
> I like the ideas you had above, but I still think that we need to
> improve our documentation and stream-line it some more, also we should
> fix our tools to make it easier to make an informed decision and take
> away some of the busy-work.

One issue I'v noticed [with the Papercuts and Ubuntu Desktop Packages]
is that, new contributors dont understand or rather have a hard time
understanding that the patch is not applied directly *in* the Ubuntu
package. 
We usually request the patch to be sent to GNOME and the patch flows
back down to Ubuntu. 
[Patching Ubuntu desktop packages is usually only done by the Canonical
Desktop team]

They are often put off by this and lag time it leads to. [I do try to
poke the upstreams regarding the papercut patches, but it is not always
easy to catch hold of the upstreams, Timezones! :-/ ]

We should probably look at how we can shorten this lag time or how do we
make it clearer that packages have less Ubuntu-specific patches? 
And that we try to co-ordinate with Upstream or Debian and try to get
the bugs fixed there first?

-- 
Cheers,
Vish