Paul B. Henson wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Darren Reed wrote:
Give them lots of money :)? On one of my recent tickets they
accidentally forwarded me an internal communication discussing checking
with our account team to see if we made them enough money to be worth
resolving our issues.
Wow, that's ... embaressing...
Have you received any bug#'s?
That particular communication was regarding my bug where I wanted the NFS
client to close its open TCP connection upon shutdown. At this point, they
are willing to write an RFE, but don't consider it a bug. It was also
indicated that even if an RFE were filed, it's unlikely to be
implemented...
File it anyway. While it may be a "low priority" bug, if an engineer is
doing
some work, sees that it is related to what they're doing, it may get fixed
"anyway." (Engineers don't ordinarily care about who/what filed the bug
or RFE if the work is what they want to do.)
And ask to be included in the contact list for the bug/rfe, too.
If you look on opensolaris.org, there is some visibility into the
internal bug database...are any of the unfixed ipfilter ones affecting
you?
I did notice a bug number I was supplied I could not look up on sunsolve
because it was internal did show up on the opensolaris.org bug search, that
seems kind of silly...
I believe that the information that is available on bugs via opensolaris.org
is less than what's available through sunsolve, so it's not totally silly.
We're trying to get more and better information available through
opensolaris.org (OS.o).
..
The development has been outsourced to China ;)
Actually, my local contact told me they were waiting on somebody in Prague
to put together the IDR 8-/.
Yes, it's multinational (:-) and the folks in Prague that support IPFilter
provide a lot of good help. They were instrumental in pushing me to
use sourceforge more.
*BUT* Prague doesn't do development work for IPFilter, China does.
Darren
