Reminder: New link type in JBS

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

This is just a friendly reminder that the new caused by/causes link type exists and that it would be good if we could remember to use it when filing issues in JBS.

The caused by / causes link is to be used when filing a bug to refer to the issue that caused the bug.

Thanks,
/Jesper

> On 28 Jan 2025, at 13:01, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> The new link type is now available in JBS.
> 
> /Jesper
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2025, at 18:37, Jesper Wilhelmsson <jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi jdk-dev,
>> 
>> This is a proposal to add a new link type to JBS, causes/caused by. The link type should be used to identify the cause of a regression, an ability that is currently missing in JBS.
>> 
>> An update to the OpenJDK Developers' Guide [1] that explain the usage of the link type has been posted as well:
>> 
>> causes / caused by - the causes link implies a stronger relationship than relates. If an issue B is filed which can be traced back to the fix for issue A then ‘A causes B’ (or ‘B was caused by A’).
>> 
>> 
>> Unless there are major concerns I propose to make this addition early next week. Once the link type is in place you will be able to find examples using it with this query:
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20JDK%20AND%20issueLinkType%20%3D%20%22caused%20by%22
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> /Jesper
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/guide/pull/139
>> 
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