Has the bug database moved?

[David Kocher]

But as I mentioned before on this list, the OS X port was left open with no updates to the existing issues users have filed. The open issues are in a unknown state with no feedback from Oracle developers. This is quite frustrating for users reporting issues and trying to help track down issues.

You should at least close these issues with a reference to the new bug on bugs.sun.com. Without this it is nearly impossible to find the issues in bugs.sun.com with its humilitating user interface.

-- David

On 17.10.2012, at 20:42, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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
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