JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/23/2015 03:20 PM, dalibor topic wrote:
> 
>> we can point people to the bug database to file bugs. As far as I'm aware,
>> the OpenJDK bug database is only accessible to OpenJDK committers, so this
>> would be a blocker to using it for the OpenJDK 7 project.
> 
> That's not quite correct:
> 
> "An individual with at least one OpenJDK Project role of Author or 
> higher has sufficient cause to get a JBS account. A JBS account grants 
> an individual general read and write access to issues, including the 
> ability to file new issues, transitioning issues among the states of the 
> workflow, adding comments, changing field values (including adding and 
> removing labels). The holder of a JBS account can also be the assignee 
> of an issue."

So, the situation with OpenJDK 7 would be as with other projects, and
people don't need to be, say, JDK9 committers to modify bug reports.
And we can grant Author status to suitably-qualified contributors to
OpenJDK 7.

It has the downside that end-users can't create bugs, but that's no
different from the other OpenJDK projects.  Sure, it'd be nice to get
that fixed for all projects.

Andrew.