On 07/24/2015 01:32 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: > On 7/24/15 10:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> to search and link bugs, and so on. I'm not convinced that the >> ability of non-Authors to create and edit bug reports is worth doing >> something so different from the rest of OpenJDK. > > Looking at > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22\%22OpenJDK%20Runtime%20Environment\%22%22%20AND%20text%20~%20%221.7.0%22%20AND%20labels%3Dwebbug%20AND%20createdDate%3E%3D2011-06-30 > - > > I can see that out of 8 issues filed by end users against OpenJDK 7 > Updates in the last 4 years through bugs.java.com, two resulted in > useful changes. > > The rest should have been filed in the corresponding downstream > patchset or binary distributor's bug tracker, or been a mailing > list/forum discussion at best. > > That's one useful OpenJDK 7 Updates-specific bug report from someone > who is not an OpenJDK developer every two years. > > I doubt that the picture looks very different for the 63 issues in > the OpenJDK 6 JIRA, that has been offering such an ability to > non-Authors for a few years as well. > > End users typically use binaries provided by third parties with > their own bug tracking facilities, which is where they go to file > their issues with such binaries.
Thanks for doing the work to discover all that. Appreciated! Andrew.
