JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Dalibor Topic]

On 7/24/15 10:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> to search and link bugs, and so on.  I'm not convinced that the
> ability of non-Authors to create and edit bug reports is worth doing
> something so different from the rest of OpenJDK.

Looking at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22\%22OpenJDK%20Runtime%20Environment\%22%22%20AND%20text%20~%20%221.7.0%22%20AND%20labels%3Dwebbug%20AND%20createdDate%3E%3D2011-06-30 -
I can see that out of 8 issues filed by end users against OpenJDK 7 Updates in the last 4 years through bugs.java.com, two resulted in useful changes. 

The rest should have been filed in the corresponding downstream patchset or binary distributor's bug tracker, or been a mailing list/forum discussion at best.

That's one useful OpenJDK 7 Updates-specific bug report from someone who is not an OpenJDK developer every two years. 

I doubt that the picture looks very different for the 63 issues in the OpenJDK 6 JIRA, that has been offering such an ability to non-Authors for a few years as well.

End users typically use binaries provided by third parties with their own bug tracking facilities, which is where they go to file their issues with such binaries.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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