who should use bugzilla ?

[Brad Wetmore]

 > it was even
 > officially named "bug parade" in former times.

I was just checking to make sure it wasn't getting confused with 
Bugzilla.  I am working on the Bugzilla piece, but have no control over 
bugs.sun.com.

 >>> Especially on the bug parade I'm missing:
 >>> - sophisticated search tools
 >>> - saving search profiles
 >>> - reopening bugs from external
 >>> - attaching resources
 >>> - customising the watch list, e.g. displaying the summary in the list
 >>> (today only id's are displayed, and you have to open all links, to
 >>> see what's inside)

I agree with you!

Brad


Ulf Zibis wrote:
> I'm talking about bugs.sun.com, as I remember right, it was even 
> officially named "bug parade" in former times. I often got messages like 
> this:
> 
> We have determined that this report is a new bug and entered the bug 
> into our
> internal bug tracking system under Bug Id: 4894530.
> 
> You can monitor this bug and look for related issues on The Java Developer
> Connection Bug Parade at: 
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4894530.html
> 
> 
> -Ulf
> 
> 
> Am 01.05.2009 03:41, Brad Wetmore schrieb:
>> For the "bug parade", were you talking about the bugs.sun.com "bug 
>> parade" or the openjdk.java.net Bugzilla instance?
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> Ulf Zibis wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I also think, that existing tools for externals are very poor, 
>>> compared e.g. with NetBeans project.
>>>
>>> Especially on the bug parade I'm missing:
>>> - sophisticated search tools
>>> - saving search profiles
>>> - reopening bugs from external
>>> - attaching resources
>>> - customising the watch list, e.g. displaying the summary in the list 
>>> (today only id's are displayed, and you have to open all links, to 
>>> see what's inside)
>>>
>>> -Ulf
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 05.03.2009 05:42, Mark Reinhold schrieb:
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>
>>
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