2015-04-15 8:32 GMT+02:00 Tobias Bley <t...@ultramixer.com>: > 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.
JBS for OpenJDK *is* JIRA: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/ > 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 >> > -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
