Update on bug system for OpenJDK (web-discuss)

[David Holmes]

Volker Simonis said the following on 05/27/11 20:11:
> I think it shouldn't be only writable by anyone - it should be
> possible to enter bugs which will become visible instantly.
> 
> It wouldn't make sense to make the new system writable only by
> contributors taking into account that the old system at bugs.sun.com
> is already writable by everybody. But the way how bugs.sun.com
> currently handles new entries which are first kept private and then
> only published after a certain amount of time without any notification
> to the submitter is at least insane. That way you can not enter a bug
> and then start a discussion about it because you simply don't have a
> reference to it. Instead you have to manually poll the system to see
> when it finally appears publicly.

The lack of notification may be "insane" but the process isn't insane 
once you see the volume of crud that gets submitted as bug reports. The 
current process certainly has some issues but you need a first-level 
filtering mechanism of some kind.  Most bug reports don't come from 
contributors, they come from users.

So I'd say that contributors should be able to make entries to the bug 
system, but users should still submit via some other front-end.

David Holmes

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Michael Klishin
> <michael.s.klishin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> mark.reinhold at oracle.com escribió:
>>> I completely agree. 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.
>> Mark,
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>> I think that if the bugs system will be read-only for "regular developers", they will post their issues
>> on various mailing lists or won't post them anywhere at all, and in the end it will be significantly harder for everyone, including contributors
>> and Oracle employees, to keep track of issues.
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>> Given that OpenJDK is a pretty large project with many moving parts, that would be a loss-loss situation for everyone, IMO.
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>> My 2¢.--
>> MK
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