Of course I forgot to be explicit about the main thing that was important to the discuss alias when I posted that last message. You do NOT need to sign the OCA to contribute a bug via bugs.java.com.
I'm not actually sure why the page at bugs.java.com directs people to the contributor agreement because, as I understand it now, none of it applies to submitting a bug using bugs.java.com. Ryan Jaeb On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com > wrote: > 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 > >
