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> Matt Ingenthron wrote: > > > > This makes sense and I've had similar experiences > myself. I guess the > > reason I suggested it is there has been, > historically, a > > formal/scalable way to raise the profile on bugs > affecting Solaris > > that is not always well understood by people > outside Sun. > > email definitely works, makes a more personal > connection that allows > > for the kind of collaboration you describe above, > and I don't want to > > discount it. Still, it's susceptible to getting > lost in a > > mailbox/organization change/etc., where the bug > record lives on with > > an RE and responsible manager in perpetuity. > That's why I suggested it. > Since I'm not the expert and in the minority here, > I'll consider it a > lesson learned and be quiet now. :) > > > - Matt > > > I'm not trying to school you here Matt - I'm sorry if > it came across > that way. > > What I was trying to say is that there isn't a > process where as an > internal contributer, I can really > raise the priority on a bug. I've been in the same > boat at other companies. > > If we step back here, I think what you are saying is > that you would like > a way to add a note > to the bug itself. And that feature is lacking. I > agree that this is a > feature we need to develop, > in part because of the reasons you list. For example, > I recently had a > discussion with > another engineer on a bug and he said there was some > issue in that area > of code. It wasn't > recorded in a bug comment somewhere, it was in some > email from 3 years > ago. And his > archives only went back 2 years. :-> > > I imagine the main issues with opening up the bug > database for input > would be: > > 1) Confidential information may be present. > 2) Spammers or irresponsible additions are easy. > > If you can think of other issues with opening things > up or ways that we > could handle the above issues, > I'd be interested in hearing your opinion. (And that > is all my emails > are anyway, opinions, I'm not > an expert on this stuff and I don't work on it.) Lack of resources. ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
