Has the bug database moved?

[Phil Race]

Let me try and clarify a few things :-

The Java group at Oracle has just switched from our old Sun-originated
internal bug tracking system (bugster) to a new *internal* instance of 
JIRA (jbs)
You can't get access to that JIRA from outside Oracle - yet !

bugs.sun.com still exists and files what we call "incidents"
as it has done for maybe 10 years now .. into yet-another
system - the incident tracking system. The number you get is therefor
a "incident manager" ID. Not the final bug id.

That system had a tool which had "click one button" capability
to forward verified incidents into the real bugtracking system - bugster
when you would get the real bug ID.

But for the last 2 or 3 years, for many "subcomponents" (eg classes_2d)
it was even better - your incident went directly into bugster, got
a real bugID right off the bat when you submitted.

Now however, and for a little while to come, Incident Manager
has no way to forward incidents into the new JIRA

It has become a "manual" process - involving a person doing copy/paste.
This will get fixed but right now I think it means that your incident is
less likely to get prompt attention.

If you need to file a JDK bug as an OpenJDK developer, particularly
if you need a bug ID for a fix, your best bet is to just ask someone at 
Oracle.

This *will* get better, but we had to switch to the new JIRA before
bugster was switched off.

Finally, the java.net/jira is not the right JIRA except for the specific
openjdk projects which are using it.  And the OS X port used it at first,
but now its moved into OpenJDK, bugs there (java.net/jira) are not tracked.
Everything that needed to be, was moved in to the main bug database
many months ago ..

-phil.




On 10/17/2012 10:35 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> It's still the same URL for now.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On Wednesday, 17 October 2012, Jeff Palmer wrote:
>
>> I submitted a bug Friday to the old bugs.sun.com.  I knew this was going
>> away, no great loss since it was showing its age, but never saw anything
>> official.  Saw this url mentioned in the apple DL that pointed to
>> java.net/jjira.  From there I click on links and see bugs in a completely
>> different format.
>>
>> The question is where should bugs be submitted?  If it is not bugs.sun.com,
>> a redirection might be good.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff Palmer