[Hoary] Repositories window unavailable after doing a system upgrade

[Ari Torhamo]

On su, 2005-02-20 at 17:38 -0500, P Jones wrote:
>> >> Same here, just updated, and Repository Dialog is broken.
>>
>> >Bugzilla'd this one at https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6768
>> 
>> Great! I was thinking of doing it myself, but felt uncertain if I should
>> do it or not. It would be good to have some kind of guidline for this:
>> what kind of things to report and when - is it better to send to the
>> list first, or send to bugzilla right a way. On the other hand it may be
>> difficult to give any universally applicable instructions about this.
>> 
>> Ari
>
>Hi Ari;
>
>I'm not sure there is a strict policy, but what I do is this; when I
>think I've found a bug, I try to fix it first, or at least determine
>that something is broken. I check bugzilla, then post to the list if
>nothing is there, and if there is some activity on the list that
>confirms that the probelm is a bug I'll report it to bugzilla.
>
>It has happened occasionally that a workaround to a problem appears on
>the list or in bugzilla, and then I'll post to workaround to the other
>place, to tie the two together. In a way, bugzilla is a kind of
>knowledge base.
>
>I'm assuming the developers are monitoring bugzilla more closely than
>they are the list, but I don't want to fill bugzilla with redundant or
>useless information, so I think posting to the appropriate list before
>reporting to bugzilla is important.
>
>-P

Hi,

Thanks for your comment - it was helpfull :-) Perhaps it would be good
too to tell on the list if one is going to do the bug report, so that
two or more people don't start to do the same thing. I've seen some
people doing that already.

Ari