Not really a nice comment but a real issue?

[Philip Race]

Oracle has a very different mind set about privacy than Google or Facebook.
It might be very hard to convince the powers that be to add a "please 
sell my personal information" checkbox ..

-phil.

On 3/20/21 8:16 AM, Abossolo Foh Guy wrote:
>> I'm surprised credit is considered important ... .
>
> You're right, but for some of your external contributors it's a 
> business model useful to communicate with their employers or patrons. 
> I tried to explain it in a Twitter post but without success :) GitHub 
> is like a vitrine where one can see the community working. To be 
> credited in the reprository is personnal satisfaction but it's also 
> like receiving "java-coins", a win-win strategy without additional 
> work from the owner since a gauge shows each contributor activity.
>
>> But FX never used the github bug tracker. ...
> https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx, did. A really amazing 
> experience ! The new repository closed this first open window :(
>
> Guy.
>
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> Le 2021-03-19 20:37, Philip Race a écrit :
>> Interesting that there's no way to add an attachment (image or 
>> otherwise).
>> I'll ask why that can't be made possible.
>>
>> I'm surprised credit is considered important but I think that the
>> current way of doing things is
>> more focused on protecting privacy of bug reporters and that they
>> might instead want their email addresses advertised
>> will quickly run into problems getting past that.
>> There's even an assurance on the bug submission form that your
>> personal info won't be shared.
>>
>> But FX never used the github bug tracker. It should never have been
>> possible to submit bugs there.
>>
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>> On 3/19/21 12:23 PM, John Neffenger wrote:
>>> On 3/19/21 11:05 AM, Philip Race wrote:
>>>> If this was important to him I don't understand why just a blog 
>>>> post and not a bug report ..
>>>
>>> If I had to guess, it might be because, in the age of GitHub, this 
>>> is not what people expect when they try to report a bug:
>>>
>>> Report a Bug or Request a Feature
>>> https://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/
>>>
>>> There are two main problems:
>>>
>>> 1. You can't attach images.
>>>
>>> 2. You don't get credit.
>>>
>>> I speak from experience. I spent five years frustrated with a JavaFX 
>>> font bug, but it was only when I could properly format a report and 
>>> include images that I bothered to open this issue:
>>>
>>> Reduce color fringes in FreeType subpixel rendering
>>> https://github.com/javafxports/openjdk-jfx/issues/229
>>>
>>> Formatting and images shouldn't matter, but two other people tried 
>>> to report that bug using the Oracle Web form, and both were closed 
>>> as "Not an Issue." You can send images later by e-mail, eventually, 
>>> but that's not explained anywhere.
>>>
>>> There was a brief window when the OpenJFX project accepted bug 
>>> reports on GitHub, but now it's back to the Oracle Web form. That 
>>> brief window is the reason I'm a contributor to the project now. I 
>>> understand the need for gate-keeping. We just shouldn't be too 
>>> surprised when people decide that the gate's too high.
>>>
>>> I think Oracle could fix the two problems and keep the Web form, and 
>>> we might get more quality bug reports instead of frustrated blog 
>>> posts. I also think that it would help a lot to enable the JIRA 
>>> markup[1] in the Java Bug System as Apache NetBeans has done. As an 
>>> example, I can't imagine trying to report a bug like the following 
>>> without formatting or in-line images:
>>>
>>> Attaching JavaFX Javadoc and Sources
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3296
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all