bug tracking

[Mark Wielaard]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:57 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
>  > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 08:52 -0700, Mark Reinhold wrote:
>  > > A bugzilla on icedtea.classpath.org is probably the best thing for now.
>  > 
>  > OK, there is http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla now.
>  > We will try to keep it just for bugs caused by packaging, the different
>  > build setup and replacement classes. And move everything else to the
>  > openjdk bug database (or classpath bugzilla if it is caused by a
>  > classpath replacement class).
> 
> I'm not convinced of the wisdom of that.  Anyone reporting a bug with
> IcedTea that is not present in OpenJDK should be able to enter it in
> IcedTea's Bugzilla: after all, how are they to know whether a bug is
> caused by bad packaging or bad Classpath code?  There's no reason not
> to link IcedTea bugs to Classpath bugs if needs be.  Also, from a
> practical point of view, I'd like to keep all IcedTea bugs together in
> one place.

Fair points. But it would be bad not to push any bugs towards the
openjdk/classpath bug databases, because they obviously also would like
to have a full overview of all known issues. I admit that I don't have a
good plan for this yet. We are currently running bugzilla
2.22.1-debian2, but it seems bugzilla 3.0 does provide some more support
for this through a Bugzilla::Webservice XML-RPC Interface. Maybe we
could switch to that in the future to automagically push/pull bugs
between projects.

For now I am seeing http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla a bit as a
"build one to throw one away" project that we can use to see what an
ideal bug tracking solution would be for all the projects involved in
the long term.

Cheers,

Mark
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