Hi, in my opinion it’s definitely no good news to move from JIRA to JBS. While Jira is a very good and popular bug tracking system, the JDK JBS is a pain. With JBS the community efforts will decrease. It’s too complicated to be part of the Java community if you are forced to first sign a commitment… It’s a step backward :( Like other decisions like stop of SceneBuilder builds, no official mobile ports and so on. Sorry, I’m very disappointed of the current strategy of Oracle.
I still hope that I am wrong… Best regards, Tobi > Am 15.04.2015 um 00:20 schrieb Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>: > > As most of you are aware, JavaFX uses its own JIRA bug tracker [1]. The JDK > Bug System [2] (JBS) is the JIRA bug tracker used by the OpenJDK Community. > With the OpenJFX Project being a part of this Community, it is time for us to > move away from our separate bug tracker and make use of JBS. This will allow > us to leverage the greater infrastructure investments being made and lessen > the burden of having to maintain our own infrastructure, and consolidates all > JDK bugs in one place. The target date for this transition is the second half > of May. > > The issues currently in the RT project in JavaFX JIRA will be folded into the > JDK project in JBS. Details will follow on the mapping, but here are the > highlights: > > - A new "javafx" component will be created in the JDK project > - Most existing JavaFX JIRA components will be sub-components of the "javafx" > component > - The mapping from existing "RT-nnnnn" bug ID to new "JDK-mmmmmmm" bug ID > will be maintained by JBS such that searching for RT-nnnnn will take you to > the right JDK-mmmmmmm bug. > > A JBS account will be needed to directly report new bugs or comment on > existing bugs. Most application developers will file new JavaFX bugs at > bugs.java.com [3] just like other JDK bugs. The requirement to get a JBS > account [4] is to have a role of Author or higher in an OpenJDK Project > (e.g., jdk9 or openjfx). > > Our advice to those of you actively involved and participating in the OpenJFX > Project is to consider joining the OpenJDK as a Contributor [5] by signing > the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA) [6]. This is a necessary first step in > contributing to any OpenJDK Project, including OpenJFX. It allows you to > provide patches that we might accept for OpenJFX, and is also a step along > the path to becoming an Author. The general guideline [7] is that the Author > role may be requested by a Project Contributor who has contributed two > non-trivial patches that have been accepted and pushed. > > As part of this transition, we will enable anonymous viewing of bugs (no need > to login just to look at a bug) and they will be easily searchable online. > > We apologize for the inconvenience caused to OpenJFX Participants by this > upcoming change to the bug database write access policy. We really appreciate > your commitment to improving and growing the JavaFX technology. > > -- Kevin > > > [1] https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/ > [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/ > [4] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/general/JBS+Overview > [3] http://bugs.java.com/ > [5] http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/ > [6] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oca-405177.pdf > [7] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#project-author >
