JDK 7 Updates: Policy Changes

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/24/2015 01:32 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for doing the work to discover all that.  Appreciated!

Andrew.