[modules-discuss] How to raise sunbugs?

[Glyn Normington]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Andreas Sterbenz wrote:

> Glyn Normington wrote:
>> What value of the product/category field should be used when  
>> raising  a bug against the modules project?
>
> For now it would be easiest to report any bugs or other  
> implementation issues here. The bugs.sun.com mechanism was designed  
> for released products and does not work well for OpenJDK.  
> Eventually we will have a bug database that all community members  
> have full access to, but we are not there yet.
>
> Is there something you would like to report?
>
> For spec bugs and other issues with the JSR 277 and JSR 294 specs,  
> please continue to use the the JCP feedback channels such as  
> jsr-277-comments at jcp.org and jsr-294-comments at jcp.org .
>
> Andreas.
>

Hi Andreas

I can no longer commit time to tracking the JSR 277 mailing list so  
I'd like to formally log the requirement for JSR 277 to interoperate  
with JSR 291 as an enhancement request. There are a number of  
benefits of using a bug to do this:

1. I can subscribe to the bug and know I will be notified if and when  
it is fixed (I will very likely remain interested in the outcome of  
the bug but not in the detailed process in deriving a solution)
2. a bug will not float off into obscurity unlike archived mailing  
list threads
3. a bug is a good way of tracking the status of "to do" items for  
any project.

This mailing list and the JCP feedback aliases do not provide these  
benefits plus I've already mentioned the interop. issue many times on  
the JSR 277 mailing list and there is still no formal way of tracking  
the progress of the item.

Glyn