Re: SuSE engagement?

--On Thursday, April 18, 2019 8:14 PM +0200 Michael Ströder 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Quanah,
>
> On 4/18/19 6:12 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> I'm looking at the patches SuSE applies to OpenLDAP, and it would be
>> nice to have some engagement from SuSE on kicking some of these back,
>
> I'm sometimes trying to push them to coordinate with upstream. Problem is
> that SLE customer bugs in https://bugzilla.opensuse.org are most times
> locked. (I miss Ralf working on that.)

Ok, thanks for that. ;)

>> particularly something like 0017-Fix-segfault-in-nops.patch, which it
>> appears is to address ITS#8759.  Do you know what we need to do on our
>> end to encourage SuSE to contribute back to the community?
>
> In particular the fight regarding 0017-Fix-segfault-in-nops.patch was
> pretty hard. Basically the private e-mail exchange after their OBS
> request between Howard Chu and SUSE devs faded out without any clear
> result.
>
> To summarize Howard's statements:
> In the best case the patch does nothing.
>
> Especially the SUSE customer did not run a clean test environment for
> reliably reproducing the issue.

Ah, ok.  Would have been nice if that'd been copied into the ITS system. 
That's a rather important detail to have missing.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
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