OpenJDK bug database: DRAFT Developer Workflow

[Iris Clark]

Hi, Martijn.

In my mind, this would be ideal.

iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn Verburg [mailto:martijnverburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:39 AM
To: Alan Bateman
Cc: discuss at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: OpenJDK bug database: DRAFT Developer Workflow

Hi Alan/All,

>> Just on this, what are the real numbers we are talking about here?
>
> I remember Roger Lewis provided some data on this. I found one mail 
> [1] where he said 450/month. There is clearly potential to crowdsource 
> these incidents but would need some way to move real bug reports to 
> the right place.

OK, it's not as bad as I feared, but nor is it a number that can just be left unmanaged. I think this is a case where the wider OpenJDK community and the JUG membership could act as a crowd sourced triage. This would hopefully let the OpenJDK comitters focus on the confirmed issues.

Thoughts?

Martijn