Update on bug system for OpenJDK

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Andrew,

> On 28 May 2011 16:51, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> JIRA is an absolute favourite of mine, it's one of the first things I
>> recommend getting into an Open Source project.  Why?  Because it
>> facilitates and encourages wider community interaction through user
>> centric ideas like voting and watching.
>
> Both of these are available in Bugzilla.

You're quite right.  In my experience (and from other users I've
worked with), the JIRA watching and voting features are used without
even thinking. I personally (see below, this is subjective) have not
seen that same level of interaction with Bugzilla.

>> Add a very friendly
>> Ux/workflow to the mix and the comments I get back regularly are that
>> people outside of the core committers team feel they are really part
>> of the process and the team, they _want_ to give feedback and help out
>> because it's so easy to do.
>
> That's subjective.  As a user, I've had exactly the opposite
> experience with JIRA.

You're absolutely right - it is completely subjective - YMMV.  I guess
I'm a little over enthusiastic because I've seen it change projects
for the better, of course that's hardly a scientific measure.

Cheers,
Martijn
(Who doesn't work for Atlassian, honest!)