How do you add a comment to a Sun/Oracle bug report?

[Phil Race]

That comment functionality wasn't as useful as you might think if
the intention was to let the resp. engineer see it.  Since I look at the
bug tool, not the web page I would never see the comment anyway.
There is no linkage between the two.
Once upon a time (8+ yrs ago) I used to get an email when someone
added a comment showing the new comment. But that applied only
to bugs assigned to me and eventually that functionality broke more
than once and then seemed gone forever.
Basically the problem is "information in 2 places"  and a lack of
transparency to the external commenter that this was no more
than a blog comment not a bug database update.

It would be "nice" if our shiny new bug system  could have a
a link to "external comments" and that it would notify me via
email when new comments are added.

-phil.


On 5/14/2013 9:01 AM, Roger Lewis wrote:
> Hi Mickey,
>      Unfortunately that functionality is not currently available and 
> have not been for a while.  The login service that bugs.sun.com 
> utilized is no longer available. Steps are in place to allow comments 
> to be added to bugs.
>
> In the meantime, for this bug, please send me your comments/changes 
> and I will see that it is updated.
>
> -Roger
>
> On 5/14/13 8:24 AM, Mickey Segal wrote:
>> One of my MacOS bug reports has appeared at 
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8014369.  I don’t see how to 
>> add a comment or log-in to add a comment.  Could someone tell me how?
>>
>>
>> Several of the other bug reports were assigned numbers, some weeks 
>> ago, but have never appeared in the bug database.  As an example, the 
>> one described at http://www.segal.org/java/SigningTestApple/ never 
>> appeared at the number I was given, and 
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8014369 got assigned a 
>> different number from the one I was sent immediately.  In general, 
>> how does one find bug reports after they are submitted?
>>
>