who should use bugzilla ?

[Phil Race]

Hello Brad and Mark,

As you can see from the email below, there's something of
an apparent hole in the description of who should use bugzilla.

Can we clarify what's supposed to be the process

Specifically if you are external to Sun. but  have an openjdk user id
either because you are a member of an openjdk group (eg 2d, awt), OR
because you have an openjdk project, then should you in fact use
bugzilla, since you can't use the Sun internal bugster tool ?


-phil.

-------- Original Message --------


Roman Kennke wrote:

>>
>> For the cases where where you have a proposed fix, then use bugzilla, for
>> the ones you don't submitting each of those tests as a bug report into bugs.sun.com
>> is the right thing to do at the moment.
> 
> Ok. The announcement also says 'contributions from those developers
> without push permissions'. This is interesting, as it excludes people
> like me, who have push access, but I cannot really make use of
> bugs.sun.com either. So I will continue to send emails instead.

I think the intent is that patches should NOT be sent in email,
as bugzilla is now available to track those patches so that they
don't get lost in the email and its easier to see where we are WRT
to integrating contributions.

So you should use bugzilla for submitting patches, even if you
ultimately push them. Patches already in process likely don't
need to be retrospectively added to bugzilla unless you want to
do that.

-phil.