where is the right place to submit bug reports?

[David P. Caldwell]

Joe,

Thanks for demonstrating that my submission made it!

Is the process I used the best process to use if I find any more issues?

-- David.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> The "incident" you submitted at bugs.sun.com was moved to a issue in the JDK
> project:
>
>     JDK-8030850 Setting .level=FINEST in logging configuration file doesn't
> work
>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030850
>
> A fix for the issue is in the JDK 9 codebase and a backport for JDK 8 GA is
> under consideration.
>
> Thanks for reporting the problem; HTH,
>
> -Joe
>
>
> On 12/23/2013 09:01 AM, David P. Caldwell wrote:
>>
>> I tried submitting one through the Oracle bug tracker but it seems
>> pretty much write-only and there is enough broken about it (broken
>> links to nowhere, etc.; the acknowledgement E-mail leads me to a bug
>> database that does not contain the bug I reported, which links to a
>> FAQ that does not exist) that I am suspicious about whether the bugs
>> actually go anywhere that people are using; and I couldn't attach the
>> files I wanted to attach for the reproduction case, etc.
>>
>> (However, if there's someone who can see it, I submitted bug #9009048
>> into Oracle's system.)
>>
>> I also located the new OpenJDK JIRA system but it does not appear to
>> allow submissions without some sort of credentials, which I don't know
>> how to go about obtaining (and is it intended that you need
>> credentials to report a bug?).
>>
>> So I'm happy to receive guidance. Obviously it's possible there's an
>> easy document somewhere which would tell me what to do, but I could
>> not find it.
>>
>> -- David P. Caldwell
>> http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/
>
>