Update on bug system for OpenJDK (web-discuss)

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/06/11 19:40, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
>> On 06/01/2011 05:03 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>> On 6/1/11 4:43 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> On 06/01/2011 03:28 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>>>> On 5/31/11 3:23 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>>>> If you funnel all bug reports through an internal closed group, you
>>>>>> will have a scaling problem, and there will be a bottleneck between
>>>>>> bug reporters and bug fixers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the good explanation. My next question would be wherefrom 
>>>>> to source such a crowd that scales?
>>>>
>>>> The set of OpenJDK contributors would be a start.
>>>
>>> That's a good idea, but the thread so far wasn't very conclusive on 
>>> contributors embracing such a task, unless I have misread it.
>>>
>>> Note that I'm not saying it's not worth doing, but I'd like to read 
>>> something more than 'build it and they'll come' to understand why a 
>>> crowd sourced from contributors would scale at that task. 
>>
>> Surely it's better than only the Oracle team.  How could it be worse?
> 
> Aren't the contributors "the team" anyway?

I don't know.  This is the first time that anyone has used "the team"
without qualification.  What's the relevance of this?

Andrew.