On 4/14/07, Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Valerie Anne Bubb wrote: > > > Due to the way our source "grows", a bug found in OpenSolaris is > > likely also in S10 (and vice versa). Keeping the data connected > > would be a good thing for Sun's customers, internal and external > > developers. That way, the information can be shared between folks > > working on different releases - no need to reinvent the wheel for > > each release. > > It goes further than that: > > - a bug in OpenSolaris likely will be in Solaris, given Solaris in > part is a distro of OpenSolaris. > > - When the OpenSolaris bug is in some software that derives from an > external source, the bug may already be known in some 3rd-party bug > DB and if not, it likely ought to be recorded in that 3rd-part DB > too.
> > This is /always/ the case for the SFW consolidation. It can be the > case for certain components of the ON consolidation (bind, > sendmail, etc..) > > The ability to tie these together in some way would be useful. > Bugzilla has had an XML-RPC interface for a while that can help to > some degree with this. This seems to be the problem that Canonical (Ubuntu) is trying to solve with Launchpad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ It seems to have a reasonably rich notion of distributions, projects, and distributed bug tracking systems. The launchpad code isn't open, but that seems to be more an issue of staffing (they'll take volunteers...) than desire. Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
