OpenJDK bug database: DRAFT Developer Workflow

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Joe,

My understanding is that JIRA should be able to hook into mercurial
directly so that when you commit a changeset it appears in that ticket
item (as long as your commit message references it).

Cheers,
Martijn

On 14 December 2011 23:30, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Omair,
>
>
> On 12/14/2011 3:21 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
>>
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> On 12/14/2011 02:28 PM, Joe Darcy wrote:
>>>
>>> If a fixed state with URLs is decided upon, it would be convenient if
>>> the Hg push hooks for the repositories automatically updated the bug
>>> with the changeset URL.
>>>
>>
>> I think useful information like this would be nice to have irrespective of
>> whether we use a fixed state with URLs or not.
>
>
> Yes, I tend to manually add a link to the changest URL for my own bugs.  I
> also often go a step further and include the text of the Hg patch in an
> internal "Suggested fix" field or include a zip of the webrev as an
> attachment to the  bug.
>
> I prefer having some inline information about the contents of the fix stored
> directly in the bug database to help long-term bug archeology since the
> lifetime of the JDK bug system may be longer than the lifetime of particular
> set of servers or URLs.
>
> -Joe