Consolidation of JAXB/JAX-WS issues

[Anthony Vanelverdinghe]

Hi

Recently I ran into an issue with JAXB, which I found at 
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB-770 However, this issue tracker is 
(apparently) abandoned. Currently, there seem to be 3 official places 
where issues can be filed:
- https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB
- https://github.com/gf-metro/jaxb/issues
- https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/projects/JDK/issues ( component 
xml/jaxb, filed through http://bugs.java.com )

but only the last one seems in active use. Also note that the same holds 
for JAX-WS:
- https://java.net/jira/browse/JAX_WS
- https://github.com/gf-metro/jaxws/issues
- https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/projects/JDK/issues ( component 
xml/jaxws, filed through http://bugs.java.com )

This is confusing (because it's unclear where new issues should be 
filed), frustrating (people who have filed issues at the original issue 
tracker are wondering why there haven't been any updates to their issues 
in the past few years, as shown by the JIRA's Activity Stream [1]). It 
also causes issues to go unnoticed (e.g. JAXB-770 was marked as critical 
5 years ago, but has remained unresolved to date since the original 
issue tracker is obsolete & the issue wasn't migrated to the OpenJDK 
issue tracker).

Therefore I believe the 2 non-OpenJDK issue trackers of both JAXB and 
JAX-WS should be shut down and any unresolved issues in those issue 
trackers should be migrated to OpenJDK. This could be done in several 
ways, for example:
- simply closing all unresolved issues stating something like "This 
issue tracker is obsolete. If this issue still applies, please file a 
bug report through bugs.java.com"
- migrating all unresolved issues to corresponding OpenJDK issues (since 
the original issue tracker is a JIRA instance as well, I'd assume this 
could be automated), and closing all issues in the other trackers with a 
link to the corresponding OpenJDK issue, or redirecting the old issue 
directly to the new issue (as was done with the old JavaFX issue tracker)

Also note that the original page for JAXP [2] was updated with a 
prominent announcement stating "Please join us at OpenJDK corelibs dev 
and file bugs on bugs.java.com." I believe the same update should be 
considered for the JAXB/JAX-WS pages.

What's your opinion on this proposal?

PS: I'm sending to this list since I believe the fact that issues are 
scattered across multiple issue trackers ultimately harms quality. If 
this discussion has been held before, or should be directed to another 
mailing list, do let me know.

[1] 
https://java.net/jira/browse/JAXB/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel
[2] https://jaxp.java.net

Kind regards,
Anthony