where is the right place to submit bug reports?

[Joe Darcy]

Hi David,

Yes; unless you have author role or higher in OpenJDK, the bugs.sun.com 
process is the most appropriate one.

Thanks,

-Joe

On 12/23/2013 09:37 AM, David P. Caldwell wrote:
> 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/
>>