who should use bugzilla ?

[Mark Reinhold]

> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:43:15 -0800
> From: phil.race at sun.com

> 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 ?

In the long run, people such as Roman who have push rights into the JDK 6
and 7 forests -- and in his case have in fact already pushed changes to
at least one of those forests, after appropriate review -- should not
need to use a special process set up primarily for people who haven't yet
earned such rights.

Having said that, Roman is completely right to point out that he can't
make effective use of bugs.sun.com on his own.  There are, moreover,
other internal tools, e.g., the code-review robot, that aren't (yet)
available to external developers.

Until such time as more of our internal tools are externalized, and we
use our Bugzilla for all bugs rather than just for contributions from
non-Sun developers, I see no harm in using Bugzilla to track changes
being proposed by such developers even if they do have push rights into
the appropriate forests.

If there's general agreement on this then I'll arrange for the warning
header on bugs.openjdk.java.net to be modified accordingly.

- Mark