Update on bug system for OpenJDK (web-discuss)

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2011/5/31 1:54 -0700, aph at redhat.com:
> On 25/05/11 17:52, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>                 ...  The primary users of this bug system are OpenJDK
>> Contributors.  It will be readable by anyone, of course, but I'm not
>> sure it should be writable by anyone other than Contributors.
>> 
>> Oracle's intent, by the way, is to continue funding an internal team
>> to triage bug reports submitted by developers and users [1].
> 
> But that doesn't scale.  We really want a way of crowdsourcing all
> of the bug-processing, and this is an important part of it.  Surely
> it would not be the case that all bug reports disappear into a private
> queue viewable only by your internal team?  That isn't going to work.

Yes, I see what you mean.  I agree it would be better to allow people
who don't work for Oracle to join in the fun of filtering incoming bug
reports.

- Mark