I saw someone posted the following link on HBASE ticket and I thought it was interesting. I have participated and instigated long discussions on tickets that do not quickly converge. It may be better if we moved these to the mailing list as the link suggest.
http://producingoss.com/en/bug-tracker-usage.html It would be nice to go to a ticket related a new 1.6.0 feature a year from now, read it, and get a clear understanding of what transpired (rather than be totally confused :). Keith
