Feedback request: OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge Grants

[Martin Buchholz]

Andy Tripp wrote:
> Which makes me think of another project idea: a project to clean up all
> the cruft in the bug database. Last I checked, there
> were over 25,000 bugs, and going through them at random seemed to
> indicate that most are simple API documentation fixes and
> clarifications, non-bugs, and other junk. I would bet that most of the
> active bugs are not being worked and never will be.
> I'd love to see some iron-fisted person go through and get it down to
> around 5,000 "real" bugs. But then again, maybe I'm
> the only one who's bothered by the volume. And I suppose this would
> require too much work inside Sun also.

I disagree that the simple documentation bugs aren't also real bugs.
The bug database is a valuable resource to the project.
It is true that certain areas of the bug database languish,
but this is often because a maintainer has left or is not
motivated to work on the bug database.  But who knows?
A future maintainer might actually enjoy bug-fixing (as I do).
The best way to reduce the number of "trivial bugs" is to fix them.
And the best way to encourage bug-fixing is making it easy (and fun!).

Martin