Bug reports

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hi Mark.

Catching up on email after Devoxx and Thanksgiving,

Mark Mahieu wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> Is there any particular process you'd prefer Coin bug reports to go through, or should they just be filed at the usual place?
>   

Hmm... First, thanks for asking :-)  In general bugs.sun.com or other 
existing channel to file bugs on JDK 7 is suitable for filing bugs on 
Coin features too of course.  For coin-dev participants, sending bugs to 
the list is reasonable as long as the general bug information is provided:

synopsis/summary
version info (which build and OS)
description
how to reproduce
expected result vs actual result
error messages
source code causing the problem
workaround (if available)

The submitting problems should generally be actual bugs in the 
implementation or specification, such as "In JDK 7 build N, javac 
crashes on this use of the diamond operator..." or "The new literal 
grammar excludes numbers with one digit" as opposed to "Instead of the 
diamond operator, var declarations should be allowed."

-Joe