OpenJDK bug database: DRAFT Developer Workflow

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Xiomara Jayasena wrote:

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>> This page is generated from the Mercurial repositories:
>>   http://download.java.net/jdk7u4/changes/jdk7u4-b03.html
>> The script, or a variation of it for openjdk6, is at
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/file/tip/make/scripts/jdkreport.pl
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>> So I do think it is possible to query the repositories for what bugs
>> were fixed.
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> This is true, but for now though those results are only as good as what the users (developer or integrator) put into the comments when integrating.  The script above originally written for JDK 7 gets the bug IDs from the comments put in by devs/integrators.

But I have historically trusted the developer changeset comments over the state of the bug tracking system.
There have been very few cases (< 1%) where the changeset comments have had the wrong bug number.
The bug tracking system sometimes lags behind the actual change being integrated.

If in the future we can do better at making both more accurate.

-kto