Question about submitting bugs

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Of course, the reference to bugs.sun.com is a throwback to times past, 
and should arguably be updated ;-)

-- Jon

On 02/17/2016 03:41 PM, dalibor topic wrote:
>
>
> On 17.02.2016 19:11, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
>> Usually I wait a few weeks and look up the review ID using my favourite
>> search engine. It'd be helpful if there was an automated notification,
>> or if the bugs could be assigned stable IDs from the beginning.
>
> The incident IDs are stable and can be alternatively used to query JBS.
>
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/general/JBS+Overview
>
> "Users without an account can also use bugs.sun.com to submit an 
> issue. When such an issue is submitted, a record is created in the 
> Java Incidents (JI) project in JBS; at the time of launch, the JI 
> project is not publicly visible. Issues in the JI project have an 
> identifier like JI-9XXXXXX, where the numeric portion corresponds to 
> the bug identifier sent back to the submitter. After an initial triage 
> process, if the incidents needs further review, it can be transferred 
> to be an issue in the JDK project. When such a transfer occurs, the 
> issue gets a new identifier in the JDK project (JDK-8YYYYYY) but 
> references to the original JI-9XXXXXX number will be redirected."
>
> e.g. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JI-9XXXXXX will redirect to 
> the corresponding issue in the JDK Project in JBS once it has been 
> triaged.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic