About bug submission

Phil Race Phil.Race at Sun.COM
Mon Nov 26 04:10:53 UTC 2007


I can't answer all of this but if you add this link :
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6633656.
to the bugzilla bug, then people will be able to click that see the 
state of the bug,
since its now filed in the sun database, although its not immediate (24 
hrs usually).

Alternatively if any one wants to monitor bugs - as opposed to see 
current status -
then they can sign up to 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/2d-bugupdates
and they will get email updates to all bugs in this subcategory as they 
happen.

-phil.

Mario Torre wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm writing to try to start a discussion about a problem that I've found
> while working on IcedTea today.
>
> We had a report from a user that filed a new bug on our bugzilla [1].
>
> After a bit of investigation, it was obvious that the bug was an
> upstream bug, and that was present in at least one version of the jdk
> itself (I actually tested on 1.6.0.03).
>
> Now, I've resubmitted the same bug to the Sun database, but had to copy
> all the data and the discussion back, as well as the proposed patch,
> embedding references to our bugzilla directly in the comments.
>
> After that, the obvious move would be to close the bug from our side,
> keeping a reference to upstream; but after all the efforts to search for
> duplicated bugs, filing a new bug, copying all the data back, etc.. I
> still don't have a reference id.
>
> Now, in this case all this was quite easy, as there were only a couple
> of comments, but there may be cases where the procedure puts much more
> efforts on the shoulder of us poor developers that already have days of
> 36 hours long, and with developers I also mean GNU/Linux distro
> packagers.
>
> I think it would be handy to have some sort of automatic procedure that
> enable us to keep in sync in such cases, even if we still have to wait
> up to 3 weeks to have a bug id assigned, but that at least let us not to
> copy information around.
>
> Well, I don't really know what this common procedure could be, but at
> least some easier way to forward bugs upstream.
>
> Both Fedora and Debian for example have bug databases in which they
> collect user bugs, filter them to see if they are specific for the
> distribution and if not, forward them.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
>
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81
>
> P.S. please, explicitly CC me as for some reason I don't get mails back
> from the various mailing lists, thank you.
>   




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