JavaFX JIRA issues moving to JBS

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:57:10 +0200, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de>  
wrote:

> Please note that the main criticism is not that it becomes a problem for
> code contributors but for people submitting qualified bug reports  
> including
> reproducible test cases, concrete measurements etc. or contribute these
> kind of things to issues opened by other people by submitting qualified
> comments thus creating value.

Exactly. Resuming my previous points, one of the most valuables sources of  
bug tracking (when a quality filter has been applied) are developers who  
strategically use the technology evesomewhere. When talking of general  
FLOSS (or even non FLOSS, but with public issue tracking) I constantly  
push people to be active and file issues by themselves (I sometimes  
support them on how to prepare a good report, hoping that after a  
bootstrap they become independent). Any obstacle in this path ends up in  
people working around bugs. Which is a pity, because this means that many  
bugs aren't fixed, people waste efforts in duplicating workarounds (*) and  
in the long run the technology might take a reputation of being  
problematic to use.

(*) That's why commenting is important. It's quite frequent that when I  
find a problem with a technology and google around I end up to an issue  
tracker and find some people who at least was able to provide an effective  
workaround that, even though not perfectly, make me able to avoid a  
blocking point, waiting for an issue to be corrected. This job could be  
eventually dealt with a properly indexed forum.

Adding points to the brainstorming section... what about a public,  
separate issue tracker to leave in the wild? Perhaps not officially  
maintained by Oracle, to avoid any criticism. The idea is that in this  
public, restrictionless Jira it's up to the community to apply the proper  
policy to keep noise low. From this public instance, selected issues  
complying with some well defined requirements could be later moved to the  
official Jira.

This would require some involvement by the community (I mean, more than  
just describing bugs and providing patches: it would have a role in  
moderating the public instance, and I understand this is definitely much  
more boring than grokking code), but I think this is somewhat unavoidable  
if Oracle doesn' want to pay the costs for this activity.

-- 
Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s.
"We make Java work. Everywhere."
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